LEADER 04499nam 2200769 450 001 9910819612203321 005 20210625003119.0 010 $a0-8122-0429-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812204292 035 $a(CKB)3710000000229441 035 $a(OCoLC)891396093 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10927434 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001343575 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11951786 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001343575 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11313788 035 $a(PQKB)10758220 035 $a(OCoLC)898755098 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse41763 035 $a(DE-B1597)450982 035 $a(OCoLC)979592101 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812204292 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442410 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10927434 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682624 035 $a(OCoLC)932313241 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442410 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000229441 100 $a20051215h20062006 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVenomous tongues $espeech and gender in late medieval England /$fSandy Bardsley 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2006] 210 4$dİ2006 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51342-2 311 0 $a0-8122-3936-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [191]-206) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: Speech, Gender, and Power in Late Medieval England --$tChapter 1. ''Sins of the Tongue'' and Social Change --$tChapter 2. The Sins of Women's Tongues in Literature and Art --$tChapter 3. Women's Voices and the Law --$tChapter 4. Men's Voices --$tChapter 5. Communities and Scolding --$tChapter 6. Who Was a Scold? --$tConclusion: Consequences of the Feminization of Deviant Speech --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aSandy Bardsley examines the complex relationship between speech and gender in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and engages debates on the static nature of women's status after the Black Death. Focusing on England, Venomous Tongues uses a combination of legal, literary, and artistic sources to show how deviant speech was increasingly feminized in the later Middle Ages. Women of all social classes and marital statuses ran the risk of being charged as scolds, and local jurisdictions interpreted the label "scold" in a way that best fit their particular circumstances. Indeed, Bardsley demonstrates, this flexibility of definition helped to ensure the longevity of the term: women were punished as scolds as late as the early nineteenth century. The tongue, according to late medieval moralists, was a dangerous weapon that tempted people to sin. During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, clerics railed against blasphemers, liars, and slanderers, while village and town elites prosecuted those who abused officials or committed the newly devised offense of scolding. In courts, women in particular were prosecuted and punished for insulting others or talking too much in a public setting. In literature, both men and women were warned about women's propensity to gossip and quarrel, while characters such as Noah's Wife and the Wife of Bath demonstrate the development of a stereotypically garrulous woman. Visual representations, such as depictions of women gossiping in church, also reinforced the message that women's speech was likely to be disruptive and deviant. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aEnglish language$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xSex differences 606 $aLanguage and culture$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aWomen$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 500-1500 606 $aSex differences (Psychology)$zGreat Britain$xHistory$yMedieval period, 1066-1485 610 $aGender Studies. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aWomen's Studies. 615 0$aEnglish language$xSex differences. 615 0$aLanguage and culture$xHistory 615 0$aWomen$xHistory 615 0$aSex differences (Psychology)$xHistory 676 $a306.44/09420902 700 $aBardsley$b Sandy$01624978 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819612203321 996 $aVenomous tongues$93960232 997 $aUNINA