The book takes us on a journey through the Christian West with braggarts, craftsmen, soldiers, sailors, and their coarse, forbidden exchanges. More than simply an exhaustive inventory of the uses of and bans on blasphemy, the book is a lively analysis of the relationship between the blasphemer, the machinery of language, and that of repression.
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The book takes us on a journey through the Christian West with braggarts, craftsmen, soldiers, sailors, and their coarse, forbidden exchanges. More than simply an exhaustive inventory of the uses of and bans on blasphemy, the book is a lively analysis of the relationship between the blasphemer, the machinery of language, and that of repression.
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Minor rubbing. Small ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG., dustwrap. 24x15cm, x, 288 pp, Translated by Eric Rauth. Contents: Ecclesiastic Time: A Chronic Sin: A Sin's Meaning; Blasphemy & the Counter-Reformation; God's Holy Church Against Blasphemy; The Princes' Time: Powers of State Against Blasphemy: Kings Against Blasphemy; Sounding the Call: Municipalities, the Bourgeois, & the Seignories; Human Time: Blasphemy's Social Milieu: Emblematic Swearers; The Other Reality; Cleric versus Philosophe: Blasphemy & Public Space: A Loosening Grip; Magistrate, Theologian, & the Ways of Justice; An Era of Transition: Blasphemy on Trial: Sacredness Elsewhere? Speech & Expiation; The Age of Blasphemy: Meanings of a Word: The Telltale Speech of Sin? What Blasphemy Said About Society; Conclusion: Blasphemy's Comeback.