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The essays in this collection demonstrate how Fama and her sisters, gossip and rumour, were central in private and public discourses about state and society in early modern Europe. In an era when oral, scribal, visual, and print cultures competed to satisfy a growing public demand for ‘news’, gossip and rumour informed people about the actions and morals of their social and political elites, and they commonly enabled people who did not usually participate in politics to engage with the public discourses about religion, governance, and society which shaped their lives and the state. So while gossip and rumour might be scurrilous and entertaining, they nonetheless performed a vital political function, regulating communal and political behaviour in the upper social echelons, as well as in neighbourhoods lower down the social scale where they might constitute a form of popular justice. This timely interdisciplinary study explores how gossip and rumour functioned dualistically at all levels of the early modern state and society either to advance or to defame reputations, and thereby shape public opinion.
Comparative literature --- Thematology --- anno 1200-1799 --- Europe --- Geruchten in de literatuur --- Gossip in literature --- Kwaadsprekers in de literatuur --- Mauvaise langue dans la littérature --- Rumeures dans la littérature --- Rumor in literature --- Commérage --- Gossip --- Rumor --- Gossip in literature. --- Rumor in literature. --- Gossip. --- Rumor. --- History --- 1500-1799. --- Europe. --- 16th century --- 17th century --- 18th century
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Droit médiéval dans la littérature --- Geheim in de literatuur --- Gossip in literature --- Huwelijk in de literatuur --- Huwelijk--Ritussen en gewoonten [Middeleeuwe] --- Kwaadsprekers in de literatuur --- Law [Medieval ] in literature --- Mariage dans la littérature --- Mariage--Rites et coutumes médiévales --- Marriage customs and rites [Medieval ] --- Marriage in literature --- Mauvaise langue dans la littérature --- Middeleeuwse wetenschappen in de literatuur --- Recht [Middeleeuws ] in de literatuur --- Science [Medieval ] in literature --- Science médiévale dans la littérature --- Secrecy in literature --- Secret dans la littérature --- Sodomie dans la littérature --- Sodomie in de literatuur --- Sodomy in literature --- Wetenschappen [Middeleeuwse ] in de literatuur --- Littérature anglaise --- Femmes --- Secret --- Mariage --- Commérage --- Thèmes, motifs --- Dans la littérature --- Angleterre (GB) --- Conditions sociales --- English literature --- Middle English, 1100-1500 --- History and criticism --- Women and literature --- England --- History --- To 1500 --- Women --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Social conditions --- 1066-1485 --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Dans la littérature.
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