Browsing History electronic theses and dissertations (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Honeycutt, Lois"
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"Longing in vain to climb into the ducal bed": gossip and rumor in Orderic Vitalis' Ecclesiastical History
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)For twelfth century Christians talk was an important tool and potential snare. The monastic chronicler Orderic Vitalis viewed talk as a potentially powerful tool and the EH reflected his belief that a sensible person, ...