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Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Oxford
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...
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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. Intro -- Title Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Oral and the Literate -- The Context -- The World of the Unlettered -- A Literate Culture -- 1: Popular Speech -- Local Lanaguage, Local Identity -- The Confusion of Tongues -- The Language of Degree -- 2: Proverbial Wisdom -- Sayings of the Philosophers -- Vulgar Wisdoms -- Useful Knowledge -- Caricatures and Criticisms -- 3: Old Wives' Tales and Nursery Lore -- For Women They Are Words -- Around the Winter Fireside -- Text and Subtext -- 4: The Historical Imagination -- Old Men Speak Fables -- The Impact of Print -- Changing Perspectives -- 5: Local Custom, Memory, and Record -- Custom and Tradition -- The Memory of Man -- The Search for Evidence -- The Desire to Document -- 6: Ballads and Libels -- Slander in SOng -- A Star Chamber Matter -- Popular Literature -- The Idiom of Odium -- 7: Rumour and News -- Think No Evil, Speak No Evil -- Spinning Webs With Words -- The Noise in the Country -- Written Origins -- The Printed Word -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.