The spoken word : oral culture in Britain, 1500-1850 / edited by Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fox, Adam, 1964- editor.

Woolf, D. R. (Daniel R.), editor.

Series:

Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.

Politics Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oral tradition--Great Britain.

Oral tradition.

Literature and folklore--Great Britain.

Literature and folklore.

Great Britain--Languages.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 286 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).

Distribution:

New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [date of distribution not identified]

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England ; New York, New York : Manchester University Press, 2018, 2002.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Human beings have developed a superabundance of ways of communicating with each other. Some, such as writing, are several millennia old. This book focuses on the relationship between speech and writing both within a single language, Welsh, and between two languages, Welsh and English. It demonstrates that the eighteenth-century Scottish clergy used the popular medium of Gaelic in oral and written form to advance the Gospel. The experience of literacy in early modern Wales was often an expression of legal and religious authority reinforced by the spoken word. This included the hearing of proclamations and other black-letter texts publicly read. Literate Protestant clergymen governed and shaped the Gaelic culture by acting as the bridge-builders between oral and literary traditions, and as arbiters of literary taste and the providers of reading material for newly literate people.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface and acknowledgments

Notes on contributors

1 Introduction

2 Language, literacy and aspects of identity in early modern Wales

3 The pulpit and the pen

4 Speaking of history

5 Vagabonds and minstrels in sixteenth-century Wales

6 Reformed folklore?

7 The genealogical histories of Gaelic Scotland

8 Constructing oral tradition

9 Things said or sung a thousand times'

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610733934

9781526137876

1526137879

9781280733932

1280733934

9781847790590

1847790593

9781423706311

1423706315

OCLC:

1198686014

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access