Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Tex Spoken Word and Social Practice: Orality in Europe (1400-1700) Book 14 (Hardcover)

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.