Spoken word and social practice : : orality in Europe (1400-1700) / / edited by Thomas V. Cohen and Lesley K. Twomey.

• Superior document: Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts, Volume 14
• TeilnehmendeR: Cohen, Thomas V. 1942-; Twomey, Lesley K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; Volume 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (517 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; 1 Oral Transfer of Ideas about Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Norway /; 2 St Helena and Love Magic: From the Spanish Inquisition to the Internet /; 3 The Power of the Spoken Word /; 4 Tracking Conversation in the Italian Courts /; 5 Tears for Fears: Mission Preaching in Seventeenth-Century France – a Double Performance /; 6 Powerful Words: St Vincent Ferrer’s Preaching and the Jews in Medieval Castile /; 7 ‘A Most Notable Spectacle’: Early Modern Easter Spital Sermons /; 8 Orality and Mutiny: Authority and Speech amongst the Seafarers of Early Modern London /; 9 ‘A Blabbermouth Can Barely Control His Tongue’: Political Poems, Songs and Prophecies in the Low Countries (Fifteenth–Sixteenth Centuries) /; 10 Proverbs and Princes in Post-Reformation England /; 11 The Meanings of Gossip in Sixteenth-Century Venice /; 12 Gossip and Social Standing in Celestina: Verbal Venom as Art /; 13 Oral Rites: Prayer and Talk in Early Modern France /; 14 The Seducer’s Tongue: Oral and Moral Issues in Medieval Erotodidactic Schooltexts /; 15 Preaching God’s Word in a Late-medieval Valencian Convent: Isabel de Villena, Writer and Preacher /; 16 Afterword /; Bibliography --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004291822
• ISSN: 0925-7683
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Thomas V. Cohen and Lesley K. Twomey.

Spoken Word and Social Practice: Orality in Europe (1400-1700) addresses historians and literary scholars. It aims to recapture oral culture in a variety of literary and non-literary sources, tracking the echo of women’s voices, on trial, or bantering and gossiping in literary works, and recapturing those of princes and magistrates, townsmen, villagers, mariners, bandits, and songsmiths. Almost all medieval and early modern writing was marked by the oral. Spoken words and turns of phrase are bedded in writings, and the mental habits of a speaking world shaped texts. Writing also shaped speech; the oral and the written zones had a porous, busy boundary. Cross-border traffic is central to this study, as is the power, range, utility, and suppleness of speech. Contributors are Matthias Bähr, Richard Blakemore, Michael Braddick, Rosanna Cantavella, Thomas V. Cohen, Gillian Colclough, Jan Dumolyn, Susana Gala Pellicer, Jelle Haemers, Marcus Harmes, Elizabeth Horodowich, Carolina Losada, Virginia Reinburg, Anne Regent-Susini, Joseph T. Snow, Sonia Suman, Lesley K. Twomey and Liv Helene Willumsen.