JOURNAL ARTICLE

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

  • Published In: Urban History, 2023, v. 50, n. 3. P. 599 1 of 3

  • Database: Historical Abstracts with Full Text 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Kilburn-Toppin, Jasmine 3 of 3

Abstract

In I The Talk of the Town, i Carla Roth skilfully explores Rütiner's notebooks as a route into early modern cultures of information, orality and sociability. The I Commentationes i gives us some unusual angles on major Reformation figures, from the ground up; as when Rütiner recorded local gossip that Heinrich Bullinger kept an inhospitable household, and Huldrych Zwingli was quarrelsome. Unsurprisingly though, it is male voices that dominate the pages of the notebooks overall, especially learned men and Protestant clergy, and fellow guildsmen from Rütiner's weaver's guild. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Urban History. 2023/08, Vol. 50, Issue 3, p599
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0963-9268
  • DOI:10.1017/S0963926823000202
  • Accession Number:173157635
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