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Singer, Julie

 
9780226838021: Out of the Mouths of Babes: Infant Voices in Medieval French Literature
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ISBN 10: 0226838021 ISBN 13: 9780226838021
Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2025

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A wide-ranging study of the rich questions raised by speaking infants in medieval French literature.

Medieval literature is full of strange moments when infants (even fetuses) speak. In Out of the Mouths of Babes, Julie Singer explores the unsettling questions raised by these events, including What is a person? Is speech fundamental to our humanity? And what does it mean, or what does it matter, to speak truth to power?

Singer contends that descriptions of baby talk in medieval French literature are far from trivial. Through treatises, manuals, poetry, and devotional texts, Singer charts how writers imagined infants to speak with an authority untainted by human experience. What their children say, then, offers unique insight into medieval hopes for universal answers to life’s deepest wonderings.

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Editore
University of Chicago Press
Data di pubblicazione
2025
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0226838021
ISBN 13 
9780226838021
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
325
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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