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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780192846457
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Talk of the Town: Information and Community in Sixteenth-Century Switzerland
- Item Height
- 234mm
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Item Width
- 156mm
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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The Talk of the Town explores everyday communication in a sixteenth-century small town and the role it played in the circulation of information across and within early modern communities. It does so through the lens of the St Gall linen trader Johannes Rutiner (1501-1556/7) and his notebooks, the Commentationes; a little-known source which offers unusual insights into an oral world normally hidden from view. A close reading of Rutiner's notes on hundreds of conversations reveals what the inhabitants of a sixteenth-century town talked about, through which channels such information reached them, and how it was then processed, shared, criticized, contradicted, and employed as a means to forge and strengthen social bonds. By bringing together the histories of sociability and information, reconstructing Ru?tiner's network of informants and probing a broad variety of exchanges-jokes, gossip, news, and tales of the past-Carla Roth rethinks both what constituted valuable information in the sixteenth century and who was able to provide it, and argues that the circulation of information remained inseparably linked to the social dynamics of face-to-face exchanges long into the age of print.
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Oxford University Press
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9780192846457
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Book Title
The Talk of the Town: Information and Community in Sixteenth-Century Switzerland
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Number of Pages
208 Pages
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Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
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The Past and Present Book Series
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United Kingdom
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