Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages / edited by Guy Halsall.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Halsall, Guy.

Conference Name:

International Medieval Congress (5th : 1998 : University of Leeds)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Medieval--Humor.

Civilization, Medieval.

Classical wit and humor.

Laughter in literature.

Europe--History--476-1492.

Europe.

History.

Europe--Social conditions--To 1492.

Social conditions.

Noncitizens in literature.

Physical Description:

xiv, 208 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Contents:

Introduction : "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.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

0521811163

OCLC:

48469136