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"The unique contribution of Venomous Tongues lies in its interdisciplinary approach and the way it situates scolding within a broader range of issues specific to the legal and social history of the period."—L. R. Poos, The Catholic University of America
Sandy Bardsley examines the complex relationship between speech and gender in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and engages debates on the static nature of women's status after the Black Death. Focusing on England, Venomous Tongues uses a combination of legal, literary, and artistic sources to show how deviant speech was increasingly feminized in the later Middle Ages. Women of all social classes and marital statuses ran the risk of being charged as scolds, and local jurisdictions interpreted the label "scold" in a way that best fit their particular circumstances. Indeed, Bardsley demonstrates, this flexibility of definition helped to ensure the longevity of the term: women were punished as scolds as late as the early nineteenth century. The tongue, according to late medieval moralists, was a dangerous weapon that tempted people to sin. During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, clerics railed against blasphemers, liars, and slanderers, while village and town elites prosecuted those who abused officials or committed the newly devised offense of scolding. In courts, women in particular were prosecuted and punished for insulting others or talking too much in a public setting. In literature, both men and women were warned about women's propensity to gossip and quarrel, while characters such as Noah's Wife and the Wife of Bath demonstrate the development of a stereotypically garrulous woman. Visual representations, such as depictions of women gossiping in church, also reinforced the message that women's speech was likely to be disruptive and deviant.
Dangerous Talk traces free speech across five centuries of popular political culture, and shows how scandalous, seditious and treasonable talk finally gained protection as 'the birthright of an Englishman'.
Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads by Sarah F. Williams Pdf
Broadside ballads-folio-sized publications containing verse, a tune indication, and woodcut imagery-related cautionary tales, current events, and simplified myth and history to a wide range of social classes across seventeenth century England. Ballads straddled, and destabilized, the categories of public and private performance spaces, the material and the ephemeral, music and text, and oral and written traditions. Sung by balladmongers in the streets and referenced in theatrical works, they were also pasted to the walls of local taverns and domestic spaces. They titillated and entertained, but also educated audiences on morality and gender hierarchies. Although contemporaneous writers published volumes on the early modern controversy over women and the English witch craze, broadside ballads were perhaps more instrumental in disseminating information about dangerous women and their acoustic qualities. Recent scholarship has explored the representations of witchcraft and malfeasance in English street literature; until now, however, the role of music and embodied performance in communicating female transgression has yet to be investigated. Sarah Williams carefully considers the broadside ballad as a dynamic performative work situated in a unique cultural context. Employing techniques drawn from musical analysis, gender studies, performance studies, and the histories of print and theater, she contends that broadside ballads and their music made connections between various degrees of female crime, the supernatural, and cautionary tales for and about women.
Language as the Site of Revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England by M. C. Bodden Pdf
Despite attempts to suppress early women's speech, this study demonstrates that women were still actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were both complicit with the patriarchal ideology whilst also undermining it.
Jean François Anne Thomas LANDRIOT (successively Bishop of La Rochelle and Saintes, and Archbishop of Rheims.)
Author : Jean François Anne Thomas LANDRIOT (successively Bishop of La Rochelle and Saintes, and Archbishop of Rheims.) Publisher : Unknown Page : 312 pages File Size : 47,5 Mb Release : 1873 Category : Electronic ISBN : BL:A0026408790
Sins of the Tongue and Jealousy in Woman's Life: Followed by Discourses on Rash Judgments, Patience, and Grace. ... Translated from the French, by H. Lyons. With Preface by the Bishop of Kerry by Jean François Anne Thomas LANDRIOT (successively Bishop of La Rochelle and Saintes, and Archbishop of Rheims.) Pdf
The Works of J. Reeve and L. Muggleton, the Two Last Prophets of the Only True God, Our Lord Jesus Christ. [Edited by J. and I. Frost.] by John REEVE (Muggletonian, and MUGGLETON (Lodowick)) Pdf
A true interpretation of ... the whole book of the Revelation of St. John. A true interpretation of the witch of Endor. The neck of the Quakers broken. A letter sent to Thomas Taylor. A looking-glass for George Fox. The answer to William Penn. An answer to Isaac Pennington by John Reeve Pdf
The Answer to William Penn Quaker, His Book, Entituled, The New Witnesses Proved Old Hereticks. Wherein He is Proved to be an Ignotant [sic] Spater-brain'd Quaker, Etc by Lodowick MUGGLETON Pdf
Overcoming Baalzebub, The Lord of The Flies by Michael O. Edwards Pdf
for a long time, the enemy has been oppressing many in the world and sadly, in the church through witchcraft. This book is a revelatory arsenal for cautioning this indignation of darkness. As you read OVercoming Baalzebub & Breaking Witchcraft Vexation, You will learn: - How to dently witchcraft activities and overcome them. - How to help those in witchcraft or affected by witchcraft spells. - How to avoid witchcraft deception, recognise its traps and reverse curses. - How to gain dominion and victory through ferven - How to navigate your life for success in an evil w