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The Talk of the Town: Information and Community in Sixteenth-Century Switzerland (The Past and Present Book Series) PDF

205 Pages·2022·109 MB·English
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by Carla Roth| 2022| 205 pages| 109| English

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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 inthe 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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Author:Carla Roth
Publication Year:2022
ISBN:9780192846457
Pages:205
Language:English
File Size:109
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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