An edition of Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
(2002)
Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
by Guy Halsall
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Table of Contents
"Don't worry, I've got the key" / Guy Halsall
Laughter and humour in the early Medieval Latin West / Danuta Shanzer
Humour and the everyday in Byzantium / John Haldon
The lexicon of abuse, drunkenness and political illegitimacy in the late Roman world / Mark Humphries
Funny foreigners, laughing with the barbarians in Late Antiquity / Guy Halsall
Liutprand of Cremona's sense of humour / Ross Balzaretti
"He never even allowed his white teeth to be bared in laughter" : the politics of humour in the Carolingian Renaissance / Matthew Innes
Alcuin's Disputatio Pippini and the early Medieval riddle tradition / Martha Bayless
Laughter after Babel's fall : misunderstandling and miscommunication in the ninth-century West / Paul Kershaw.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Most of the papers were first presented in a series of sessions at the fifth International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, 1998.
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