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Title Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages / edited by Guy Halsall.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages)
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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.
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Subject Civilization, Medieval -- Humor.
Civilization, Medieval.
Genre/Form Humor.
Subject Classical wit and humor.
Classical wit and humor.
Laughter in literature.
Laughter in literature.
Europe -- History -- 476-1492.
Europe.
History.
Chronological Term 476-1492
Subject Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term To 1492
Subject Noncitizens in literature.
Chronological Term Geschichte 300-900
Subject Noncitizens in literature.
Indexed Term Humorismo.
Risa en la literatura.
Europa Historia 476-1492.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Online-Publikation.
Subject CivilizaciĆ³n medieval.
Humor.
Europa.
Historia.
Genre/Form History.
Subject 476-1492.
Genre/Form Humor.
Subject Humorismo.
Indexed Term CivilizaciĆ³n medieval Humor.
Subject Risa en la literatura.
Added Author Halsall, Guy.
International Medieval Congress (5th : 1998 : University of Leeds)
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
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