02400nam a2200385 a 4500 ebr10021340 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 011105s2002 enk sb 001 0 eng 2001052873 0521811163 CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)52568957 D80 .H86 2002eb 306.4/81 21 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. 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" / 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. 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. local Halsall, Guy. ebrary, Inc. International Medieval Congress (5th : 1998 : University of Leeds) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10021340 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 10933 10933