ISBN:
9789004288683
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (517 p)
Series Statement:
Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts v.14
Parallel Title:
Print version Cohen, Thomas V Spoken Word and Social Practice : Orality in Europe (1400-1700)
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Oral communication ; Europe ; Medieval, 500-1500
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Oral communication ; Europe ; Modern period, 1500-
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Social history ; Medieval, 500-1500
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Social history ; Modern period, 1500-
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Sociolinguistics ; Europe ; History ; Medieval, 500-1500
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Sociolinguistics ; Europe ; History ; Modern period, 1500-
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Speech acts (Linguistics) ; Europe ; History
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Europe ; Intellectual life ; History
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Europe ; Social conditions ; History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Life and Works of Alexander Francis Cowan -- Bibliography of Alexander Cowan -- Introduction -- Witches' Words -- 1 Oral Transfer of Ideas about Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Norway -- 2 St Helena and Love Magic: From the Spanish Inquisition to the Internet -- Words on Trial -- 3 The Power of the Spoken Word: Depositions of the Imperial Chamber Court: Power, Resistance, and 'Orality' -- 4 Tracking Conversation in the Italian Courts -- Preaching the Word -- 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 -- Word on the Street -- 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 -- Gossip and Gossipers -- 11 The Meanings of Gossip in Sixteenth-Century Venice -- 12 Gossip and Social Standing in Celestina: Verbal Venom as Art -- Prayer, Teaching, and Religious Talk -- 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
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