Unbridled Tongue
Babble and Gossip in Renaissance France
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Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780199662302
- ISBN-100199662304
- OCLC Control Number944318063
- Better World Books9780199662302
- Open LibraryOL28583679M
Classifications
- LCCPQ239
- LCCPQ239 .B88 2016
Description
'The Unbridled Tongue' is a book about talking too much and why it was considered not just inadvisable but dangerous in 16th-century Europe. Drawing on a wide range of sources and approaches, it addresses Renaissance literary portrayals of gossip and rumour in a social, religious, political, and historical frame.
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