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The spoken word : oral culture in Britain, 1500-1850 /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fox, Adam, 1964-, Woolf, D. R. (Daniel R.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : 2002.
Series:Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.
Subjects:
Oral tradition > Great Britain > History.
Literature and folklore > Great Britain > History.
Literature and history > Great Britain > History.
Great Britain > Languages > History.
Great Britain > Social life and customs.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.