Cohen, Thomas and Twomey, Lesley (2015) Spoken Word and Social Practice: Orality in Europe (1400-1700). Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts, 14 . Brill, Leiden. ISBN 9789004288683
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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.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Subjects: | R900 Others in European Languages, Literature and related subjects V300 History by topic |
| Department: | Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Social Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | Ay Okpokam |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Dec 2015 15:31 |
| Last Modified: | 09 May 2019 10:32 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/24859 |
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