Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe - Softcover

 
9780801488573: Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe
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ISBN 10: 0801488575 ISBN 13: 9780801488573
Verlag: Cornell University Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

In medieval Europe, the word fama denoted both talk (what was commonly said about a person or event) and an individual's ensuing reputation (one's fama). Although talk by others was no doubt often feared, it was also valued and even cultivated as a vehicle for shaping one's status. People had to think about how to "manage" their fama, which played an essential role in the medieval culture of appearances.At the same time, however, institutions such as law courts and the church, alarmed by the power of talk, sought increasingly to regulate it. Christian moral discourse, literary and visual representation, juristic manuals, and court records reflected concern about talk. This book's authors consider how talk was created and entered into memory. They address such topics as fama's relation to secular law and the preoccupations of the church, its impact on women's lives, and its capacity to shape the concept of literary authorship.

In medieval Europe, the word fama denoted both talk (what was commonly said about a person or event) and an individual's ensuing reputation (one's fama). Although talk by others was no doubt often feared, it was also valued and even cultivated as a vehicle for shaping one's status. People had to think about how to "manage" their fama, which played an essential role in the medieval culture of appearances.

At the same time, however, institutions such as law courts and the church, alarmed by the power of talk, sought increasingly to regulate it. Christian moral discourse, literary and visual representation, juristic manuals, and court records reflected concern about talk. This book's authors consider how talk was created and entered into memory. They address such topics as fama's relation to secular law and the preoccupations of the church, its impact on women's lives, and its capacity to shape the concept of literary authorship.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Thelma S. Fenster teaches French Literature and Daniel Lord Smail teaches History at Fordham University. Fenster has edited and translated several works by Christine de Pizan. She is the editor of Arthurian Women: A Casebook and coeditor of Gender in Debate from the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Daniel Lord Smail is the author of Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille, also from Cornell, winner of the American History Association's Herbert Baxter Adams prize.

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Verlag
Cornell University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0801488575
ISBN 13 
9780801488573
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
Herausgeber
Fenster Thelma, Smail Daniel Lord
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