Out of the Mouths of Babes : Infant Voices in Medieval French Literature
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0226838013
ISBN-13
9780226838014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 10th, 2025
Print length
328 Pages
Weight
481 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 14.00 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
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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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