The Talk of the Town: Information and Community in Sixteenth-Century Switzerland

by Carla Roth

The Talk of the Town explores everyday communication in a sixteenth-century small town and the role it played in the circulation of information across and within early modern communities. It does so through the lens of the St Gall linen trader Johannes R tiner (1501-1556/7) and his notebooks, the Commentationes; a little-known source which offers unusual insights into an oral world normally hidden from view. A close reading of R tiner's notes on hundreds...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192846450
• ISBN13: 9780192846457
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"