TY - BOOK
T1 - Spoken Word and Social Practice
T2 - Orality in Europe (1400-1700)
A2 - Cohen, Thomas
A2 - Twomey, Lesley K.
PY - 2015/7
Y1 - 2015/7
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://librarysearch.northumbria.ac.uk:443/northumbria:default_scope:44UON_ALMA2132085130003181
M3 - Book
SN - 9789004288683
VL - 14
T3 - Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts
BT - Spoken Word and Social Practice
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden
ER -