Venomous Tongues
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Venomous Tongues
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Author : Sandy Bardsley
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2006-05-31
Venomous Tongues written by Sandy Bardsley and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-31 with Foreign Language Study categories.
"The unique contribution of Venomous Tongues lies in its interdisciplinary approach and the way it situates scolding within a broader range of issues specific to the legal and social history of the period."—L. R. Poos, The Catholic University of America
Venomous Tongues
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Author : Sandy Bardsley
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2014-09-03
Venomous Tongues written by Sandy Bardsley and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-03 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Sandy Bardsley examines the complex relationship between speech and gender in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and engages debates on the static nature of women's status after the Black Death. Focusing on England, Venomous Tongues uses a combination of legal, literary, and artistic sources to show how deviant speech was increasingly feminized in the later Middle Ages. Women of all social classes and marital statuses ran the risk of being charged as scolds, and local jurisdictions interpreted the label "scold" in a way that best fit their particular circumstances. Indeed, Bardsley demonstrates, this flexibility of definition helped to ensure the longevity of the term: women were punished as scolds as late as the early nineteenth century. The tongue, according to late medieval moralists, was a dangerous weapon that tempted people to sin. During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, clerics railed against blasphemers, liars, and slanderers, while village and town elites prosecuted those who abused officials or committed the newly devised offense of scolding. In courts, women in particular were prosecuted and punished for insulting others or talking too much in a public setting. In literature, both men and women were warned about women's propensity to gossip and quarrel, while characters such as Noah's Wife and the Wife of Bath demonstrate the development of a stereotypically garrulous woman. Visual representations, such as depictions of women gossiping in church, also reinforced the message that women's speech was likely to be disruptive and deviant.
Dangerous Talk
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Author : David Cressy
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-01-14
Dangerous Talk written by David Cressy and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-14 with History categories.
Dangerous Talk examines the 'lewd, ungracious, detestable, opprobrious, and rebellious-sounding' speech of ordinary men and women who spoke scornfully of kings and queens. Eavesdropping on lost conversations, it reveals the expressions that got people into trouble, and follows the fate of some of the offenders. Introducing stories and characters previously unknown to history, David Cressy explores the contested zones where private words had public consequence. Though 'words were but wind', as the proverb had it, malicious tongues caused social damage, seditious words challenged political authority, and treasonous speech imperilled the crown. Royal regimes from the house of Plantagenet to the house of Hanover coped variously with 'crimes of the tongue' and found ways to monitor talk they deemed dangerous. Their response involved policing and surveillance, judicial intervention, political propaganda, and the crafting of new law. In early Tudor times to speak ill of the monarch could risk execution. By the end of the Stuart era similar words could be dismissed with a shrug. This book traces the development of free speech across five centuries of popular political culture, and shows how scandalous, seditious and treasonable talk finally gained protection as 'the birthright of an Englishman'. The lively and accessible work of a prize-winning social historian, it offers fresh insight into pre-modern society, the politics of language, and the social impact of the law.
Damnable Practises Witches Dangerous Women And Music In Seventeenth Century English Broadside Ballads
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Author : Sarah F. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09
Damnable Practises Witches Dangerous Women And Music In Seventeenth Century English Broadside Ballads written by Sarah F. Williams and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with Music categories.
Broadside ballads-folio-sized publications containing verse, a tune indication, and woodcut imagery-related cautionary tales, current events, and simplified myth and history to a wide range of social classes across seventeenth century England. Ballads straddled, and destabilized, the categories of public and private performance spaces, the material and the ephemeral, music and text, and oral and written traditions. Sung by balladmongers in the streets and referenced in theatrical works, they were also pasted to the walls of local taverns and domestic spaces. They titillated and entertained, but also educated audiences on morality and gender hierarchies. Although contemporaneous writers published volumes on the early modern controversy over women and the English witch craze, broadside ballads were perhaps more instrumental in disseminating information about dangerous women and their acoustic qualities. Recent scholarship has explored the representations of witchcraft and malfeasance in English street literature; until now, however, the role of music and embodied performance in communicating female transgression has yet to be investigated. Sarah Williams carefully considers the broadside ballad as a dynamic performative work situated in a unique cultural context. Employing techniques drawn from musical analysis, gender studies, performance studies, and the histories of print and theater, she contends that broadside ballads and their music made connections between various degrees of female crime, the supernatural, and cautionary tales for and about women.
Language As The Site Of Revolt In Medieval And Early Modern England
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Author : M. C. Bodden
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-08-14
Language As The Site Of Revolt In Medieval And Early Modern England written by M. C. Bodden and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Despite attempts to suppress early women's speech, this study demonstrates that women were still actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were both complicit with the patriarchal ideology whilst also undermining it.
Sins Of The Tongue And Jealousy In Womans Life
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Author : Jean François Anne Thomas Landriot (Archbishop of Rheims.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
Sins Of The Tongue And Jealousy In Womans Life written by Jean François Anne Thomas Landriot (Archbishop of Rheims.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with categories.
Sins Of The Tongue And Jealousy In Woman S Life Followed By Discourses On Rash Judgments Patience And Grace Translated From The French By H Lyons With Preface By The Bishop Of Kerry
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Author : Jean François Anne Thomas LANDRIOT (successively Bishop of La Rochelle and Saintes, and Archbishop of Rheims.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
Sins Of The Tongue And Jealousy In Woman S Life Followed By Discourses On Rash Judgments Patience And Grace Translated From The French By H Lyons With Preface By The Bishop Of Kerry written by Jean François Anne Thomas LANDRIOT (successively Bishop of La Rochelle and Saintes, and Archbishop of Rheims.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with categories.
Treason And Masculinity In Medieval England
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Author : E. Amanda McVitty
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2020
Treason And Masculinity In Medieval England written by E. Amanda McVitty and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
Groundbreaking new approach to the idea of treason in medieval England, showing the profound effect played by gender.
The Works Of J Reeve And L Muggleton The Two Last Prophets Of The Only True God Our Lord Jesus Christ Edited By J And I Frost
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Author : John REEVE (Muggletonian, and MUGGLETON (Lodowick))
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1832
The Works Of J Reeve And L Muggleton The Two Last Prophets Of The Only True God Our Lord Jesus Christ Edited By J And I Frost written by John REEVE (Muggletonian, and MUGGLETON (Lodowick)) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1832 with categories.
A True Interpretation Of The Whole Book Of The Revelation Of St John A True Interpretation Of The Witch Of Endor The Neck Of The Quakers Broken A Letter Sent To Thomas Taylor A Looking Glass For George Fox The Answer To William Penn An Answer To Isaac Pennington
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Author : John Reeve
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1832
A True Interpretation Of The Whole Book Of The Revelation Of St John A True Interpretation Of The Witch Of Endor The Neck Of The Quakers Broken A Letter Sent To Thomas Taylor A Looking Glass For George Fox The Answer To William Penn An Answer To Isaac Pennington written by John Reeve and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1832 with categories.