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Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages /

These essays range from the late Roman empire through to the tenth century, and from Byzantium to Anglo-Saxon England, taking a historian's perspective to look at the use of irony, ridicule and satire as political tools.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Medieval Congress
Otros Autores: Halsall, Guy
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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.