Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages  [electronic resource] / 
edited by Guy Halsall. 
 - Cambridge ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  2002. 
 - xiv, 208 p. 
<br/><br/> Most of the papers were first presented in a series of sessions at the fifth International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, 1998. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> "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 /  Guy Halsall --  Danuta Shanzer --  John Haldon --  Mark Humphries --  Guy Halsall --  Ross Balzaretti --  Matthew Innes --  Martha Bayless --  Paul Kershaw. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Civilization, Medieval--Humor.<br/>Classical wit and humor.<br/>Laughter in literature.<br/>Aliens in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Europe--History--476-1492.<br/>Europe--Social conditions--To 1492.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>D80  / .H86 2002eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.4/81