The Unruly Tongue in Early Modern England
Title | The Unruly Tongue in Early Modern England PDF eBook |
Author | Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1611474698 |
The Unruly Tongue in Early Modern England is a scholarly edition of three early modern treatises on the unruly tongue: Jean de Marconville, A Treatise of the Good and Evell Tounge (ca.1592), William Perkins, A Direction for the Government of the Tongue according to Gods worde (1595), and George Webbe, The Araignement of an unruly Tongue (1619). "The tongue can no man tame" says the Bible (James 3:8), and yet these texts try to tame the tongues of men and tell them how they should rule this little but essential organ and avoid swearing, blaspheming, cursing, lying, flattering, railing, slandering, quarrelling, babbling, jesting, or mocking. This volume excavates the biblical and classical sources in which these early modern texts are embedded and gives a panorama of the sins of the tongue that the Elizabethan society both cultivates and strives to contain. Vienne-Guerrin provides the reader with early modern images of what Erasmus described as a "slippery" and "ambivalent" organ that is both sweet and sour, a source of life and death.
The Unruly Tongue in Early Modern England
Title | The Unruly Tongue in Early Modern England PDF eBook |
Author | Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin |
Publisher | Fairleigh Dickinson |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2012-03-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1611474701 |
The Unruly Tongue in Early Modern England is a scholarly edition of three early modern treatises on the unruly tongue: Jean de Marconville, A Treatise of the Good and Evell Tounge (ca.1592), William Perkins, A Direction for the Government of the Tongue according to Gods worde (1595), and George Webbe, The Araignement of an unruly Tongue (1619). “The tongue can no man tame” says the Bible (James 3:8), and yet these texts try to tame the tongues of men and tell them how they should rule this little but essential organ and avoid swearing, blaspheming, cursing, lying, flattering, railing, slandering, quarrelling, babbling, jesting, or mocking. This volume excavates the biblical and classical sources in which these early modern texts are embedded and gives a panorama of the sins of the tongue that the Elizabethan society both cultivates and strives to contain. Vienne-Guerrin provides the reader with early modern images of what Erasmus described as a “slippery” and “ambivalent” organ that is both sweet and sour, a source of life and death.
The Unruly Tongue
Title | The Unruly Tongue PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Vise |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2025-01-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1512827134 |
A cultural history of speech in medieval Italy The Unruly Tongue, a cultural history of speech in medieval Italy, offers a new account of how the power of words changed in Western thought. Despite the association of freedom of speech with the political revolutions of the eighteenth century that ushered in the era of modern democracies, historian Melissa Vise locates the history of the repression of speech not in Europe’s monarchies but rather in Italy’s republics. Exploring the cultural process through which science and medicine, politics, law, literature, and theology together informed a new political ethics of speech, Vise uncovers the formation of a moral code where the regulation of the tongue became an integral component of republican values in medieval Europe. The medieval citizens of Italy’s republics understood themselves to be wholly subject to the power of words not because they lived in an age of persecution or doctrinal rigidity, but because words had furnished the grounds for their political freedom. Speech-making was the means for speaking the republic itself into existence against the opposition of aristocracy, empire, and papacy. But because words had power, they could also be deployed as weapons. Speech contained the potential for violence and presented a threat to political and social order, and thus needed to be controlled. Vise shows how the laws that governed and curtailed speech in medieval Italy represented broader cultural understandings of human susceptibility to speech. Tracing anthropologies of speech from religious to political discourse, from civic courts to ecclesiastical courts, from medical texts to the works of Dante and Boccaccio, The Unruly Tongue demonstrates that the thirteenth century marked a major shift in how people perceived the power, and the threat, of speech: a change in thinking about “what words do.”
Unruly Tongue
Title | Unruly Tongue PDF eBook |
Author | Martha J. Cutter |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | American fiction |
ISBN |
A study of how women writers found ways to sound an authoritative voice in the male-dominated world
Controlling the Tongue
Title | Controlling the Tongue PDF eBook |
Author | R.T Kendall |
Publisher | Charisma Media |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2011-10-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 159979814X |
The words we speak have power. Often the consequences of our careless words are far reaching and eternal. At one time or another we all have experienced saying something in a moment that takes hours (or weeks or a lifetime) to make right. In his engaging teaching style, Dr. R. T. Kendall helps you learn how to take control of the words you speak. He brings you straight to the Bible to identify characters who spoke without thinking as examples of how not to do things, demonstrating conclusively through their lives that, even when you fail, God will use you as He used them.,
Unruly tongue
Title | Unruly tongue PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 248 |
Release | |
Genre | American fiction |
ISBN | 9781617035302 |
The Tongue, a Creative Force
Title | The Tongue, a Creative Force PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Capps |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780982032053 |
Teaches that when faith is conceived in the human spirit by the hearing of God's Word and then spoken through the mouth of the believer, it becomes a spiritual force that releases the ability of God within the believer.