The unbridled tongue [electronic resource] : babble and gossip in Renaissance France / Emily Butterworth.

The unbridled tongue [electronic resource] : babble and gossip in Renaissance France / Emily Butterworth.

9780191770470 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

English

1 online resource (viii, 233 pages) : illustrations

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199662302 doi

PQ239 .B88 2016eb

840.9003

'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.

'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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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