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Fama : The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe /
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. Pe...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2003.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Thelma Fenster, Daniel Lord Smail
- PART I. FAMA AND THE LAW
- Fama and the law in twelfth-century Tuscany / Chris Wickham
- Fama as a legal status in renaissance Florence / Thomas Kuehn
- Silent witnesses, absent women, and the law courts in medieval Germany / Madeline H. Caviness, Charles G. Nelson
- PART II. FAMA AND REPUTATION
- Good name, reputation, and notoriety in French customary law / F.R.P. Akehurst
- Infamy and proof in Medieval Spain / Jeffrey A. Bowman
- Constructing reputations : fama and memory in Christine de Pizan's Charles V and L'Advision Christine / Lori J. Walters
- PART 3. FAMA AND SPEECH
- Sin, speech, and scolding in late medieval England / Sandy Bardsley
- Romancing the world : fama in the middle English Sir Launfal and Athelston / Richard Horvath
- Fama and pastoral constraints on rebuking sinners : the book of Margery Kempe / Edwin D. Craun
- Conclusion / Thelma Fenster, Daniel Lord Smail.