Out of the Mouths of Babes

Infant Voices in Medieval French Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Julie Singer, Professor Julie Singer

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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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Utgivningsdatum2025-03-10
Mått140 x 216 x 26 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor328
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226838014

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"Historical records about the lives of children are sparse, relegated as they often were to the domestic sphere. Nevertheless, as [Singer] shows, literary and religious texts offer glimpses of how young people were imagined. Her perceptive analysis reveals what these depictions say about medieval ideas of disability, personhood and truth. . . A pleasure to read, full of insights where one least expects them."