Publisher:
The Ohio State University Press, Columbus
"Using the medieval accounts of Richard the Lionheart's life and stories of Charlemagne, Roland, John de Warenne, and other figures, Libbon argues that public talk was a collaborative mechanism that produced texts and that it was a fundamental...
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"Using the medieval accounts of Richard the Lionheart's life and stories of Charlemagne, Roland, John de Warenne, and other figures, Libbon argues that public talk was a collaborative mechanism that produced texts and that it was a fundamental context for those texts' transmission and reception"--
Introduction: Tuning our ears -- Local talk and the retrospective text -- Public talk and legal fictions -- Talking pictures in fourteenth-century London -- The conversant codex -- English rumor and the modular manuscript -- Epilogue: Turning up the archive
