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

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Halsall, Guy.; ProQuest (Firm); International Medieval Congress (5th : 1998 : University of Leeds)
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiv, 208 p.
• 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.
• Other title: "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 /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 0521811163
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Guy Halsall.