{"product_id":"the-unruly-tongue-in-early-modern-england-three-treatises-9781611474695","title":"The Unruly Tongue in Early Modern England: Three","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Unruly Tongue in Early Modern England is a scholarly edition of three early modern treatises on the unruly tongue: Jean de Marconville, A Treatise of the Good and Evell Tounge (ca.1592), William Perkins, A Direction for the Government of the Tongue according to Gods worde (1595), and George Webbe, The Araignement of an unruly Tongue (1619). “The tongue can no man tame” says the Bible (James 3:8), and yet these texts try to tame the tongues of men and tell them how they should rule this little but essential organ and avoid swearing, blaspheming, cursing, lying, flattering, railing, slandering, quarrelling, babbling, jesting, or mocking. This volume excavates the biblical and classical sources in which these early modern texts are embedded and gives a panorama of the sins of the tongue that the Elizabethan society both cultivates and strives to contain. Vienne-Guerrin provides the reader with early modern images of what Erasmus described as a “slippery” and “ambivalent” organ that is both sweet and sour, a source of life and death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVienne-Guerrin provides a deft overview of the scholarship on the tongue over the past twenty-five years. She traces the biblical and classical sources that the authors reference while presenting a brief overview of the anatomy of the tongue and the relationship between the tongue and heart....One of the most useful features of the book is the collection of striking images relating to the tongue that Vienne-Guerrin has collected in the appendix...Vienne-Guerrin's edition effectively situates the representation of the tongue in the noisy world of the early modern England. * Renaissance Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Table of illustrations  Table of abbreviations  INTRODUCTION Editorial note  Jean de MARCONVILLE,  A Treatise of the Good and Evell Tounge. ca. 1592  A note on the text  The text   William PERKINS,  A Direction for the Government of the Tongue according to Gods worde. 1595 [1593]  A note on the text  The text  George WEBBE,  The Araignement of an unruly Tongue. 1619.  A note on the text  The text  Appendices  Appendix A: Marconville’s Treatise in French  Appendix B: Additions to Perkins’ 1593 text Appendix C: Outline of Perkins’ treatise  Appendix D: Outline of Webbe’s treatise  Appendix E: Tongue Stories: some variations  Appendix F: Images of the tongue  Works cited  ","brand":"Fairleigh Dickinson University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041686552919,"sku":"9781611474695","price":83.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781611474695.jpg?v=1750951299","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-unruly-tongue-in-early-modern-england-three-treatises-9781611474695","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}