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THE UNBRIDLED TONGUE
BABBLE AND GOSSIP IN RENAISSANCE FRANCE |
| By: |
Emily Butterworth |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£98.00 |
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£95.06 |
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£2.94 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199662304 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199662302 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
11 February, 2016 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
The Unbridled Tongue is a book about talking too much and why it was considered not just inadvisable but dangerous in sixteenth-century Europe. Drawing on a wide range of sources and approaches, it is the first book to address Renaissance literary portrayals of gossip and rumour in a social, religious, political, and historical frame. |
| Synopsis: |
The Unbridled Tongue looks at gossip, rumour, and talking too much in Renaissance France in order to uncover what was specific about these practices in the period. Taking its cue from Erasmus's Lingua, in which both the subjective and political consequences of an idle and unbridled tongue are emphasised, the book investigates the impact of gossip and rumour on contemporary conceptions of identity and political engagement. Emily Butterworth discusses prescriptive literature on the tongue and theological discussions of Pentecost and prophecy, and then covers nearly a century in chapters focused on a single text: Rabelais's Tiers Livre, Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron, Ronsard's Discours des miseres de ce temps, Montaigne's 'Des boyteux', Brantome's Dames galantes and the anonymous Caquets de l'accouchee. In covering the 'long sixteenth century', the book is able to investigate the impact of the French Wars of Religion on perceptions of gossip and rumour, and |
| Illustrations: |
7 black-and-white halftones |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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