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The Spoken Word: Oral Culture in Britain, 1500-1850

The Spoken Word: Oral Culture in Britain, 1500-1850

Fox, Adam
Woolf, Daniel

Paperback

Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain

Mythology & FolkloreGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0719057477
ISBN13: 9780719057472
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Feb 13 2003
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.36
Language: English

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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