Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages [electronic resource] /
edited by Guy Halsall.
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- xiv, 208 p. ; 24 cm.
Most of the papers were first presented in a series of sessions at the fifth International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Don't worry, I've got the key" / Laughter and humour in the early Medieval Latin West / Humour and the everyday in Byzantium / The lexicon of abuse, drunkenness and political illegitimacy in the late Roman world / Funny foreigners, laughing with the barbarians in Late Antiquity / Liutprand of Cremona's sense of humour / "He never even allowed his white teeth to be bared in laughter" : the politics of humour in the Carolingian Renaissance / Alcuin's Disputatio Pippini and the early Medieval riddle tradition / Laughter after Babel's fall : misunderstandling and miscommunication in the ninth-century West / Guy Halsall -- Danuta Shanzer -- John Haldon -- Mark Humphries -- Guy Halsall -- Ross Balzaretti -- Matthew Innes -- Martha Bayless -- Paul Kershaw.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Civilization, Medieval--Humor.
Classical wit and humor.
Laughter in literature.
Aliens in literature.
Europe--History--476-1492.
Europe--Social conditions--To 1492.
Electronic books.
D80 / .H86 2002eb
306.4/81
Most of the papers were first presented in a series of sessions at the fifth International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Don't worry, I've got the key" / Laughter and humour in the early Medieval Latin West / Humour and the everyday in Byzantium / The lexicon of abuse, drunkenness and political illegitimacy in the late Roman world / Funny foreigners, laughing with the barbarians in Late Antiquity / Liutprand of Cremona's sense of humour / "He never even allowed his white teeth to be bared in laughter" : the politics of humour in the Carolingian Renaissance / Alcuin's Disputatio Pippini and the early Medieval riddle tradition / Laughter after Babel's fall : misunderstandling and miscommunication in the ninth-century West / Guy Halsall -- Danuta Shanzer -- John Haldon -- Mark Humphries -- Guy Halsall -- Ross Balzaretti -- Matthew Innes -- Martha Bayless -- Paul Kershaw.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Civilization, Medieval--Humor.
Classical wit and humor.
Laughter in literature.
Aliens in literature.
Europe--History--476-1492.
Europe--Social conditions--To 1492.
Electronic books.
D80 / .H86 2002eb
306.4/81