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The Spoken Word

Oral Culture in Britain, 1500–1850
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Description

Discussing the transition from a largely oral to a fundamentally literate society in the Early Modern period, this text examines English, Scottish and Welsh oral culture to provide a pan-British study of the subject. 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. The text 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 chronological span than most other studies to show the link between Early Modern and modern oral and literate cultures.

Author Biography:

Adam Fox is Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh. Daniel Woolf is Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada -- .
Release date NZ
February 13th, 2003
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Contributors
  • Edited by Adam Fox
  • Edited by Daniel Woolf
Illustrations
Illustrations, black & white
Pages
296
Dimensions
156x234x16
ISBN-13
9780719057472
Product ID
4023784

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