Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
| Titel: | Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages / ed. by Guy Halsall |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge [u.a.] : Univ. Press, 2002 |
| Umfang: | XIV, 208 S. ; 24 cm |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| RVK-Notation: | Vorliegende Ausgabe: | Online-Ausg.: 2003. - Online-Ressource. |
| ISBN: | 0511020457 (Sekundärausgabe) ; 9780511020452 (Sekundärausgabe) |
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Most of the papers were first presented in a series of sessions at the fifth International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, 1998
"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 |
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