Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-235) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Tuning our ears -- Local talk and the retrospective text -- Public talk and legal fictions -- Talking pictures in fourteenth-century London -- The conversant codex -- English rumor and the modular manuscript -- Epilogue: Turning up the archive.
Summary:
"Using the medieval accounts of Richard the Lionheart's life and stories of Charlemagne, Roland, John de Warenne, and other figures, Libbon argues that public talk was a collaborative mechanism that produced texts and that it was a fundamental context for those texts' transmission and reception"-- Provided by publisher.
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