Spoken word and social practice : : orality in Europe (1400-1700) / / 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...
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| Superior document: | Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts, Volume 14 |
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| 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. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / Thomas V. Cohen and Lesley K. Twomey
- 1 Oral Transfer of Ideas about Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Norway / Liv Helene Willumsen
- 2 St Helena and Love Magic: From the Spanish Inquisition to the Internet / Susana Gala Pellicer
- 3 The Power of the Spoken Word / Matthias Bähr
- 4 Tracking Conversation in the Italian Courts / Thomas V. Cohen
- 5 Tears for Fears: Mission Preaching in Seventeenth-Century France – a Double Performance / Anne Régent-Susini
- 6 Powerful Words: St Vincent Ferrer’s Preaching and the Jews in Medieval Castile / Carolina Losada
- 7 ‘A Most Notable Spectacle’: Early Modern Easter Spital Sermons / Sonia Suman
- 8 Orality and Mutiny: Authority and Speech amongst the Seafarers of Early Modern London / Richard J. Blakemore
- 9 ‘A Blabbermouth Can Barely Control His Tongue’: Political Poems, Songs and Prophecies in the Low Countries (Fifteenth–Sixteenth Centuries) / Jan Dumolyn and Jelle Haemers
- 10 Proverbs and Princes in Post-Reformation England / Marcus Harmes and Gillian Colclough
- 11 The Meanings of Gossip in Sixteenth-Century Venice / Elizabeth Horodowich
- 12 Gossip and Social Standing in Celestina: Verbal Venom as Art / Joseph T. Snow
- 13 Oral Rites: Prayer and Talk in Early Modern France / Virginia Reinburg
- 14 The Seducer’s Tongue: Oral and Moral Issues in Medieval Erotodidactic Schooltexts / Rosanna Cantavella
- 15 Preaching God’s Word in a Late-medieval Valencian Convent: Isabel de Villena, Writer and Preacher / Lesley K. Twomey
- 16 Afterword / Michael J. Braddick
- Bibliography
- Index.