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.]œ : Univ. Press, 2002
Umfang: XIV, 208 S. ; 24 cm
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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Vorliegende Ausgabe: Online-Ausg.: 2003. - Online-Ressource.
ISBN: 0511020457 (Sekundärausgabe) ; 9780511020452 (Sekundärausgabe)
  • 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