Spoken word and social practice : orality in Europe (1400-1700) / Edited by Thomas V. Cohen and Lesley K. Twomey.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xiv-xv, 463-485) and index.

Witches' words : Oral transfer of ideas about witchcraft in seventeenth-century Norway / Liv-Helene Willumsen -- St Helena and Love Magic: From the Spanish Inquisition to Internet / Susana Gala Pellicer -- Words on Trial : The Power of the Spoken Word : Depositions of the Imperial Chamber Court: Power, Resistance -- And 'orality'/ Marcus Bahr -- Tracking conversation in the Italian courts / Thomas V. Cohen -- Preaching the Word : Tears for Fears: Mission Preaching in Seventeenth-Century France; a Double Performance / Anne R�egent-Susini -- Powerful Words: St Vincent Ferrer's Preaching and the Jews in Medieval Castile / Carolina Losada -- A Most Notable Spectacle': Early Modern Easter Spital Sermons / Sonia Suman -- Word on the Street: Orality and Mutiny: Authority and Speech amongst the Seafarers of Early Modern London / Richard J. Blakemore --'A Blabbermouth Can Barely Control His Tongue': Political Poems, Songs and Prophecies in the Low Countries (Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries) / Jan Dumolyn and Jelle Haemers --Proverbs and Princes in Post-Reformation England / Marcus Harmes and Gillian Colclough -- Gossip and Gossipers: The Meanings of Gossip in Sixteenth-Century Venice / Elizabeth Horodowich -- Gossip and Social Standing in Celestina: Verbal Venom as Art / Joseph T. Snow -- Prayer, Teaching, and Religious Talk: Oral Rites: Prayer and Talk in Early Modern France / Virginia Reinburg --The Seducer's Tongue: Oral and Moral Issues in Medieval Erotodidactic Schooltexts / Rosanna Cantavella -- Preaching God's Word in a Late-medieval Valencian Convent: Isabel de Villena, Writer and Preacher / Lesley K. Twomey.