The spoken word : oral culture in Britain, 1500-1850 / edited by Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf.
Material type: TextSeries: Politics, culture, and society in early modern BritainPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2002.Description: 286 p ; 24 cmISBN:- 0719057469 (hbk.)
- 0719057477 (pbk.)
- 398/.0941 21
- GR141 .S66 2002
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Books | VWML | GN 20 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Reference only | 18408 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf -- Language, literacy and aspects of identity in early modern Wales / Richard Suggett and Eryn White -- The pulpit and the pen : clergy, orality and print in the Scottish Gaelic world / Donald Meek -- Speaking of history : conversations about the past in Restoration and eighteenth-century England / Daniel Woolf -- Vagabonds and minstrels in sixteenth-century Wales / Richard Suggett -- Reformed folklore? Cautionary tales and oral tradition in early modern England / Alexandra Walsham -- The genealogical histories of Gaelic Scotland / Martin MacGregor -- Constructing oral tradition : the origins of the concept in Enlightenment intellectual culture / Nicholas Hudson -- 'Things said or sung a thousand times' : customary society and oral culture in rural England, 1700 - 1900 / Bob Bushaway.