Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages/
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Cambridge New York:
Cambridge University Press,
2002
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Table of Contents:
- "Donʹt worry, Iʹve 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 Cremonaʹs 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
- Alcuinʹs Disputatio Pippini and the early Medieval riddle tradition / Martha Bayless
- Laughter after Babelʹs fall : misunderstandling and miscommunication in the ninth-century West / Paul Kershaw.