Fama - The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe

Klappentext Thelma S. Fenster teaches French Literature and Daniel Lord Smail teaches History at Fordham University. Fenster has edited and translated several works by Christine de Pizan. She is the editor of Arthurian Women: A Casebook and coeditor of Gender in Debate from the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Daniel Lord Smail is the author of Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille, also from Cornell, winner of the American History Association's Herbert Baxter Adams prize. Zusammenfassung 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...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Thelma (Teacher of French Literature Fenster, Thelma S. Smail Fenster, Thelma Smail Fenster, FENSTER THELMA TEACHER OF FRENCH
• Collaboration: Thelma Fenster (Editeur), Thelma S. Fenster (Editeur), Daniel Lord Smail (Editeur)
• Edition: Cornell University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 16.04.2003
• EAN: 9780801488573
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-8857-3
• Pages: 240
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Moyen Age