UID:
almahu_9947382620302882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 286 pages) :
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illustrations; digital file(s).
ISBN:
9786610733934
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9781526137876
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1526137879
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9781280733932
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1280733934
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9781847790590
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1847790593
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9781423706311
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1423706315
Series Statement:
Politics Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
Content:
Human beings have developed a superabundance of ways of communicating with each other. Some, such as writing, are several millennia old. This book focuses on the relationship between speech and writing both within a single language, Welsh, and between two languages, Welsh and English. It demonstrates that the eighteenth-century Scottish clergy used the popular medium of Gaelic in oral and written form to advance the Gospel. The experience of literacy in early modern Wales was often an expression of legal and religious authority reinforced by the spoken word. This included the hearing of proclamations and other black-letter texts publicly read. Literate Protestant clergymen governed and shaped the Gaelic culture by acting as the bridge-builders between oral and literary traditions, and as arbiters of literary taste and the providers of reading material for newly literate people.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Front matter --
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Contents --
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Preface and acknowledgments --
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Notes on contributors --
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1 Introduction --
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2 Language, literacy and aspects of identity in early modern Wales --
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3 The pulpit and the pen --
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4 Speaking of history --
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5 Vagabonds and minstrels in sixteenth-century Wales --
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6 Reformed folklore? --
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7 The genealogical histories of Gaelic Scotland --
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8 Constructing oral tradition --
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9 Things said or sung a thousand times' --
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Index
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Also available in print form.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780719057472
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0719057477
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780719057465
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0719057469
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7765/9781526137876
URL:
http://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526137876/9781526137876.xml
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526137876
URL:
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