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Fama : The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe / ed. by Thelma Fenster, Daniel Lord Smail.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) : 18 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9781501718106
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340/.115 21
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1. FAMAAND THE LAW -- 1. Fama and the Law in Twelfth-Century Tuscany -- 2. Fama as a Legal Status in Renaissance Florence -- 3. Silent Witnesses, Absent Women, and the Law Courts in Medieval Germany -- PART 2. FAMA AND REPUTATION -- 4. Good Name, Reputation, and Notoriety in French Customary Law -- 5. Infamy and Proof in Medieval Spain -- 6. Constructing Reputations: Fama and Memory in Christine de Pizan's Charles Vand L'Advision Cristine -- PART 3. FAMA AND SPEECH -- 7. Sin, Speech, and Scolding in Late Medieval England -- 8. Romancing the Word: Fama in the Middle English Sir Launfal and Athelston -- 9. Fama and Pastoral Constraints on Rebuking Sinners: The Book of Margery Kempe -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: In medieval Europe, the word fama denoted both talk (what was commonly said about a person or event) and an individual's ensuing reputation (one's fama). Although talk by others was no doubt often feared, it was also valued and even cultivated as a vehicle for shaping one's status. People had to think about how to "manage" their fama, which played an essential role in the medieval culture of appearances.At the same time, however, institutions such as law courts and the church, alarmed by the power of talk, sought increasingly to regulate it. Christian moral discourse, literary and visual representation, juristic manuals, and court records reflected concern about talk. This book's authors consider how talk was created and entered into memory. They address such topics as fama's relation to secular law and the preoccupations of the church, its impact on women's lives, and its capacity to shape the concept of literary authorship.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1. FAMAAND THE LAW -- 1. Fama and the Law in Twelfth-Century Tuscany -- 2. Fama as a Legal Status in Renaissance Florence -- 3. Silent Witnesses, Absent Women, and the Law Courts in Medieval Germany -- PART 2. FAMA AND REPUTATION -- 4. Good Name, Reputation, and Notoriety in French Customary Law -- 5. Infamy and Proof in Medieval Spain -- 6. Constructing Reputations: Fama and Memory in Christine de Pizan's Charles Vand L'Advision Cristine -- PART 3. FAMA AND SPEECH -- 7. Sin, Speech, and Scolding in Late Medieval England -- 8. Romancing the Word: Fama in the Middle English Sir Launfal and Athelston -- 9. Fama and Pastoral Constraints on Rebuking Sinners: The Book of Margery Kempe -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

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In medieval Europe, the word fama denoted both talk (what was commonly said about a person or event) and an individual's ensuing reputation (one's fama). Although talk by others was no doubt often feared, it was also valued and even cultivated as a vehicle for shaping one's status. People had to think about how to "manage" their fama, which played an essential role in the medieval culture of appearances.At the same time, however, institutions such as law courts and the church, alarmed by the power of talk, sought increasingly to regulate it. Christian moral discourse, literary and visual representation, juristic manuals, and court records reflected concern about talk. This book's authors consider how talk was created and entered into memory. They address such topics as fama's relation to secular law and the preoccupations of the church, its impact on women's lives, and its capacity to shape the concept of literary authorship.

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