The spoken word: Oral culture in Britain, 1500-1850 (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain) - Softcover

 
9780719057472: The spoken word: Oral culture in Britain, 1500-1850 (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0719057477 ISBN 13: 9780719057472
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Discusses the transition from a largely oral to a fundamentally literate society in the early modern period. During this period the spoken word remained of the utmost importance but development of printing and the spread of popular literacy combined to transform the nature of communication. Examines English, Scottish and Welsh Oral culture to provide the first pan-British study of the subject. Covers several aspects of oral culture ranging from tradition, to memories of the civil war, to changing mechanics for the settling of debts. The time-span concentrates on the period 1500-1800 but includes material from outside this time frame, covering a longer chronolgical span than most other studies to show the link between early modern and modern oral and literate cultures.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Adam Fox is Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh

Daniel Woolf is Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada

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Discusses the transition from a largely oral to a fundamentally literate society in the early modern period. During this period the spoken word remained of the utmost importance but development of printing and the spread of popular literacy combined to transform the nature of communication. Examines English, Scottish and Welsh Oral culture to provide the first pan-British study of the subject. Covers several aspects of oral culture ranging from tradition, to memories of the civil war, to changing mechanics for the settling of debts. The time-span concentrates on the period 1500-1800 but includes material from outside this time frame, covering a longer chronolgical span than most other studies to show the link between early modern and modern oral and literate cultures.

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Discusses the transition from a largely oral to a fundamentally literate society in the early modern period. During this period the spoken word remained of the utmost importance but development of printing and the spread of popular literacy combined to transform the nature of communication. Examines English, Scottish and Welsh Oral culture to provide the first pan-British study of the subject. Covers several aspects of oral culture ranging from tradition, to memories of the civil war, to changing mechanics for the settling of debts. The time-span concentrates on the period 1500-1800 but includes material from outside this time frame, covering a longer chronolgical span than most other studies to show the link between early modern and modern oral and literate cultures.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719057477
ISBN 13 
9780719057472
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
300
Herausgeber
Fox Adam, Woolf Daniel
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