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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- "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.