Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
By: edited by Guy Halsall.
Contributors: Halsall, Guy.; International Medieval Congress (5th : 1998 : University of Leeds)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval -- Humor.; Classical wit and humor.; Laughter in literature.; Aliens in literature.; Europe -- History -- 476-1492.; Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Most of the papers were first presented in a series of sessions at the fifth International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, 1998.
Table of contents: title: "Don't worry, I've got the key" / Guy Halsall; title: Laughter and humour in the early Medieval Latin West / Danuta Shanzer; title: Humour and the everyday in Byzantium / John Haldon; title: The lexicon of abuse, drunkenness and political illegitimacy in the late Roman world / Mark Humphries; title: Funny foreigners, laughing with the barbarians in Late Antiquity / Guy Halsall; title: Liutprand of Cremona's sense of humour / Ross Balzaretti; title: "He never even allowed his white teeth to be bared in laughter" : the politics of humour in the Carolingian Renaissance / Matthew Innes; title: Alcuin's Disputatio Pippini and the early Medieval riddle tradition / Martha Bayless; title: Laughter after Babel's fall : misunderstandling and miscommunication in the ninth-century West / Paul Kershaw.