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 |
---|---|
Beteiligt: | |
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) |
Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsbeschreibung der Sammlung und Zugangshinweise
|
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: 'Don't worry, I've got the key' Guy Halsall
- Part I
- The Fate of Humorous Writing
- 1
- Laughter and humour in the early medieval Latin west Danuta Schanzer
- 2
- Humour and the everyday in Byzantium John Haldon
- Part II
- Humour and the Politics of Difference
- 3
- The lexicon of abuse: drunkenness and political illegitimacy in the late Roman world Mark Humphries
- 4
- Funny foreigners: laughing with the barbarians in late Antiquity Guy Halsall
- 5
- Liutprand of Cremona's sense of humour Ross Balzaretti
- Part III
- Humour, History and Politics in the Carolingian World
- 6
- 'He never even allowed his white teeth to be bared in laughter': the politics of humour in the Carolingian renaissance Matthew Innes
- 7
- Alcuin's Disputatio Pippini and the early medieval riddle tradition Martha Bayless
- 8
- Laughter after Babel's fall: misunderstanding and miscommunication in the ninth-century west Paul Kershaw
- Index