The Common Voice

Essays on Communication and Culture in Early Modern Britain
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72253-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 136, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

In this volume Adam Fox brings together a collection of his essays on aspects of oral, scribal and printed communication across early modern Britain. These studies explore the relationship between spoken and written transmission, the processes and products of information gathering, and the creation and consumption of street literature.

Focussing on various parts of the British Isles between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, they illuminate the nature of popular culture, the transition to a more literate society, and the engagement with ephemeral texts in 'the handpress world'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fox, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Adam Fox is Professor of Social History at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500–1700 (Oxford, 2000), and The Press and the People: Cheap Print and Society in Scotland, 1500–1785 (Oxford, 2020)