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xiv, 208 p. "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. edited by Guy Halsall. 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. 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 D80 .H86 2002eb 306.4/81 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10021340 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10021340 CaPaEBR 011105 ebr10021340