Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Halsall Guy Paperback
Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Halsall Guy Paperback Although the topic of humor has been dealt with for other eras, early medieval humor remains largely…
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Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Halsall Guy Paperback
Although the topic of humor has been dealt with for other eras, early medieval humor remains largely neglected. The essays range from the late Roman empire through to the tenth century, and from Byzantium to Anglo-Saxon England. The essays collected here attempt to fill the gap, examining how the writers of early medieval sources deliberately employed humor to make their case.
The subject matter is diverse, but a number of themes link them together, notably the use of irony, ridicule and satire as political