The Hands of the Tongue

The Hands of the TongueTogether the essays present a clear picture of what we know about deviant speech in medieval culture, a picture that has begun to achieve the depth and richness of scholarship on slander in the early modern period, exploring what speech acts can tell us about gender, crime and punishment, agency, ethics and literary craftsmanship.

He shows that it was so powerful and pervasive that it outlived the passing of Empire itself

The book analyses and compares a variety of processes of change: in evolution

it teases out the events and mechanisms involved in punk’s ‘micro-mobilisation’

The importance of money as one of the key variables in the workings of the medieval economy is often overlooked

including a wide variety of records that provide an unbroken view into life on the Clifford estates in England

This work is both a family history and a social history of Scotland seen against a city

and with new chapters on working with informal classification

It has been written by leading British historians

Who's Who in Research: Visual Arts includes concise yet detailed listings include each academic’s name

and Indigenous authors

Incorporating articles on literature

It provides an opportunity to hear history as it happened