Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700 (Hardcover)

This is one of those rare history books that will change the way in which you think about the past. You might have imagined that the ordinary conversations, sayings, stories and songs of the majority of men, women and children in history would have been lost in the mists of time. Until relatively recently, most people could not write and much of what they said was never thought worthy of recording. But in this brilliantly imaginative and massively learned book Fox manages to bring the dim and distant voices back to life. In his pages you can hear sounds of the world which Shakespeare knew: the dialects, the proverbs, the jokes. You can eavesdrop on the gossip of the marketplace of Tudor and Stuart England, learn the bawdy songs chorused about the great and the good, or sit in on the evening firesides and listen to the legends and tales, ballads and nursery rhymes that were at the heart of popular culture. This is one of the most original, vivid and fascinating works of non-fiction that you will read in a long time and is surely destined to become a classic. (Kirkus UK)

Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700 explores the rich oral culture of early modern England. It focuses upon dialect speech and proverbial wisdom, "old wives' tales" and children's lore, historical legends and local customs, scurrilous versifying and scandalous rumour-mongering. Adam Fox demonstrates the extent to which this vernacular world was fundamentally structured by written and printed sources over the course of the period.

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford Studies in Social History
Release date:	November 2000
First published:	November 2000
Authors:	Adam Fox
Dimensions:	224 x 146 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	512
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-820512-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Myths & mythology Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Oral history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Folklore Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Oral history Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Religion & Spirituality > Myths & mythology Promotions
LSN:	0-19-820512-0
Barcode:	9780198205128

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