Fama : : The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe / / ed. by Thelma Fenster, Daniel Lord Smail.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Akehurst, F. R. P.,; Bardsley, Sandy,; Bowman, Jeffrey A.,; Caviness, Madeline H.,; Craun, Edwin D.,; Fenster, Thelma,; Horvath, Richard,; Kuehn, Thomas,; Lord Smail, Daniel,; Nelson, Charles G.,; Walters, Lori J.,; Wickham, Chris,
• HerausgeberIn: Fenster, Thelma,; Smail, Daniel Lord,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 18 halftones

In medieval Europe, the word fama denoted both talk (what was commonly said about a person or event) and an individual's ensuing reputation (one's fama). Although talk by others was no doubt often feared, it was also valued and even cultivated as a vehicle for shaping one's status. Pe...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• PART 1. FAMAAND THE LAW
• 1. Fama and the Law in Twelfth-Century Tuscany
• 2. Fama as a Legal Status in Renaissance Florence
• 3. Silent Witnesses, Absent Women, and the Law Courts in Medieval Germany
• PART 2. FAMA AND REPUTATION
• 4. Good Name, Reputation, and Notoriety in French Customary Law
• 5. Infamy and Proof in Medieval Spain
• 6. Constructing Reputations: Fama and Memory in Christine de Pizan's Charles Vand L'Advision Cristine
• PART 3. FAMA AND SPEECH
• 7. Sin, Speech, and Scolding in Late Medieval England
• 8. Romancing the Word: Fama in the Middle English Sir Launfal and Athelston
• 9. Fama and Pastoral Constraints on Rebuking Sinners: The Book of Margery Kempe
• Conclusion
• Selected Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index