Format:
xiv, 208 p
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24 cm
Edition:
Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2003 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
ISBN:
0511020457
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0521811163
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9780511020452
,
0511045107
,
9780511045103
,
0511029802
,
9780511029806
,
0511120230
,
9780511120237
,
9780521811163
Series Statement:
EBSCOhost eBook Collection
Content:
"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
Content:
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; Geschichte 300-900; To 1492
Note:
Most of the papers were first presented in a series of sessions at the fifth International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2003
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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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0511045107
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0511029802
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0511120230
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521811163
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0511020457
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Europa
;
Mittelalter
;
Humor
;
Literatur
;
Politik
;
Geschichte 300-900
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Europa
;
Mittelalter
;
Humor
;
Literatur
;
Politik
;
Geschichte 300-900
;
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Electronic books.
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