Spoken Word and Social Practice : Orality in Europe (1400-1700).

Intro -- 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.

Spoken Word and Social Practice: Orality in Europe (1400-1700) aims to recapture words spoken in medieval and early modern times, tracking women's voices, on trial, or bantering and gossiping, and tracing those of princes, priests, and magistrates, townsmen, villagers, mariners, bandits, and songsmiths.

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