Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
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Essays on the use of humour by late antique and early medieval writers.
Notes on contributorsPrefaceList of abbreviationsIntroduction: 'Don't worry, I've got the key'11Laughter and humour in the early medieval Latin west252Humour and the everyday in Byzantium483The lexicon of abuse: drunkenness and political illegitimacy in the late Roman world754Funny foreigners: laughing with the barbarians in late antiquity895Liutprand of Cremona's sense of humour1146'He never even allowed his white teeth to be bared in laughter': the politics of humour in the Carolingian renaissance1317Alcuin's Disputatio Pippini and the early medieval riddle tradition1578Laughter after Babel's fall: misunderstanding and miscommunication in the ninth-century west179Index203
