The unbridled tongue [electronic resource] : babble and gossip in Renaissance France / Emily Butterworth.
Butterworth, Emily, author.
2016
PQ239 .B88 2016eb
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Title The unbridled tongue [electronic resource] : babble and gossip in Renaissance France / Emily Butterworth.
Author Butterworth, Emily, author.
ISBN 9780191770470 (electronic book)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199662302
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 233 pages) : illustrations
Item Number 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199662302 doi
Call Number PQ239 .B88 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 840.9003
Summary 'The Unbridled Tongue' is a book about talking too much and why it was considered not just inadvisable but dangerous in 16th-century Europe. Drawing on a wide range of sources and approaches, it addresses Renaissance literary portrayals of gossip and rumour in a social, religious, political, and historical frame.
Note 'The Unbridled Tongue' is a book about talking too much and why it was considered not just inadvisable but dangerous in 16th-century Europe. Drawing on a wide range of sources and approaches, it addresses Renaissance literary portrayals of gossip and rumour in a social, religious, political, and historical frame.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 10, 2016).
Available in Other Form Unbridled toungue.
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Introduction: Unbridled tongues
Too much talk
Speaking in tongues: Pentecost and prophecy
Public voice: Rabelais
Noise: Heptaméron
Licence: Ronsard
Rumour: Montaigne
Court: Brantôme
Women: Les Caquets de l'accouchée
Conclusion: Gossip in the public sphere.

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