Unbridled Tongue - Butterworth, Emily
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The Unbridled Tongue is a book about talking too much and why it was considered not just inadvisable but dangerous in sixteenth-century Europe. Drawing on a wide range of sources and approaches, it is the first book to address Renaissance literary portrayals of gossip and rumour in a social, religious, political, and historical frame.

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The Unbridled Tongue is a book about talking too much and why it was considered not just inadvisable but dangerous in sixteenth-century Europe. Drawing on a wide range of sources and approaches, it is the first book to address Renaissance literary portrayals of gossip and rumour in a social, religious, political, and historical frame.
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Autorenporträt
Emily Butterworth is a Senior Lecturer in French at King's College London. She is the author of Poisoned Words: Slander and Satire in Early Modern France, and articles on gossip, scandal, obscenity, and other forms of deviant and excessive language in the early modern period. She is co-investigator on the AHRC-funded project 'Gossip and Nonsense: Excessive Language in the French Renaissance'.