The Unbridled Tongue looks at gossip, rumor, and talking too much in Renaissance France in order to uncover what was specific about these practices in the period. Taking its cue from Erasmus'sLingua,
The intersection--but more often the distinction--between slander and satire was of major concern to both satirists and writers about slander in early modern France, says Butterworth (French, U. of Sh
Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular culture define
