Transforming Talk. The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England. By Susan E. Phillips
The wordgossip in the sense of idle talk, is relatively recent—nineteenth century—and as the author points out in an early footnote, its medieval godparent (an etymologically nice choice of word) is jangling, or just idle talk, and it is of such theological significance that a special devil is assig...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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Literature and theology
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 122-124 |
| Review of: | Transforming Talk (University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, 2007) (Murdoch, Brian)
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| Summary: | The wordgossip in the sense of idle talk, is relatively recent—nineteenth century—and as the author points out in an early footnote, its medieval godparent (an etymologically nice choice of word) is jangling, or just idle talk, and it is of such theological significance that a special devil is assigned to record it, Tutivillus. Susan Phillips's opening chapter draws attention, in fact, to the theological implications of gossip as a danger just as bad, though not nearly as obvious, as, say, heresy. Indeed, the Penitential known as the Corrector, widely used from the eleventh century and printed in the 1540s, proscribes gossip in church, on a non-gender-specific basis, against a penalty of ten days on bread and water. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frn003 |