The Spoken Word

Oral Culture in Britain, 1500–1850

Adam Fox, Daniel Woolf, Martin Hargreaves , Anthony Milton

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Manchester University Press
13 February 2003

Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain

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.

Index by: Martin Hargreaves
Edited by: Adam Fox, Daniel Woolf
Series edited by: Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 426g
ISBN: 9780719057472
ISBN 10: 0719057477
Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 13 February 2003
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface and Acknowledgments Contributors 1. Introduction - Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf 2. Language, Literacy and Aspects of Identity in Early Modern Wales - Richard Suggett and Eryn White 3. The Pulpit and the Pen: Clergy, Literacy and Oral Tradition in the Scottish Highlands - Donald Meek 4. Speaking of History: Conversations about the Past in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century England - Daniel Woolf 5. Vagabonds and Minstrels in Sixteenth-Century Wales - Richard Suggett 6. Reformed Folklore? Cautionary Tales and Oral Tradition in Early Modern England - Alexandra Walsham 7. The Genealogical Histories of Gaelic Scotland - Martin MacGregor 8. Constructing Oral Tradition: The Origin of the Concept in Enlightenment Intellectual Culture - Nicholas Hudson 9. 'Things Said or Sung a Thousand Times': Customary Society and Oral Culture in Rural England 1700-1900 - Bob Bushaway -- .

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