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Talk and textual production in medieval England / Marisa Libbon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Libbon, Marisa, author.
- Series:
- Interventions: new studies in medieval culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--Criticism, Textual.
- Criticism, Textual.
- Public speaking.
- Conversation--History.
- Conversation.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- English literature--Middle English.
- History.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Using the medieval accounts of Richard the Lionheart's life and stories of Charlemagne, Roland, John de Warenne, and other figures, Libbon argues that public talk was a collaborative mechanism that produced texts and that it was a fundamental context for those texts' transmission and reception"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Tuning our ears
- Local talk and the retrospective text
- Public talk and legal fictions
- Talking pictures in fourteenth-century London
- The conversant codex
- English rumor and the modular manuscript
- Epilogue: Turning up the archive.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-235) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814214701
- 0814214703
- OCLC:
- 1226076520
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