Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
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edited by Guy Halsall
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Cambridge ; New York
Verlag:
Cambridge University Press
Jahr:
2002
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1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 208 Seiten)
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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. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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"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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Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
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Europe History 476-1492 Europe Social conditions To 1492