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Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
Title:
Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
Author:
Halsall, Guy.
Publication Information:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Physical Description:
xiv, 208 p.
General Note:
Most of the papers were first presented in a series of sessions at the fifth International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, 1998.
Contents:
"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
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Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Shelf Location | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| D80 .H86 2002 | 929264-1001 | Ebook Central | Searching... |
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