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1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Note |
Most of the papers were first presented in a series of sessions at the fifth International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, 1998. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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. |
Summary |
These essays range from the late Roman empire through to the tenth century, and from Byzantium to Anglo-Saxon England, taking a historian's perspective to look at the use of irony, ridicule and satire as political tools. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Civilization, Medieval -- Humor.
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Civilization, Medieval. |
Genre/Form |
Humor.
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Classical wit and humor.
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Classical wit and humor. |
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Laughter in literature.
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Laughter in literature. |
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Europe -- History -- 476-1492.
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Europe. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
476-1492 |
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Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492.
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Social conditions. |
Chronological Term |
To 1492 |
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Noncitizens in literature.
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Chronological Term |
Geschichte 300-900 |
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Noncitizens in literature. |
Indexed Term |
Humorismo. |
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Risa en la literatura. |
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Europa Historia 476-1492. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Online-Publikation.
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CivilizaciĆ³n medieval.
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Humor.
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Europa.
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Historia.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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476-1492.
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Genre/Form |
Humor.
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Subject |
Humorismo.
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Indexed Term |
CivilizaciĆ³n medieval Humor. |
Subject |
Risa en la literatura.
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Added Author |
Halsall, Guy.
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International Medieval Congress (5th : 1998 : University of Leeds)
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Added Title |
Humor, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages |
Other Form: |
Print version: Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521811163 (DLC) 2001052873 (OCoLC)48469136 |
ISBN |
0511020457 (electronic book) |
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9780511020452 (electronic book) |
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9780511045103 |
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0511029802 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511029806 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511120230 (electronic book) |
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9780511120237 (electronic book) |
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9780521811163 (hardback) |
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0521811163 (hardback) |
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9780511496325 (ebook) |
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051149632X (ebook) |
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1280159596 |
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9781280159596 |
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