In this episode of the audiolog of the project, “Fama in Medieval Denmark, c. 1240-1340”, we discuss two central component parts of fama, namely reputation and public opinion. What are they really, and how do we deal with these concepts when we study the Middle Ages?
Host: Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm, associate professor of Medieval History at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense) and head of the research project “Fama in Medieval Denmark (c. 1240-1340): Rumors, Reputation and Public Opinion” https://www.sdu.dk/da/om-sdu/institutter-centre/iks/forskning/forskningsprojekter/fama
The project and show is supported by the Carlsberg Foundation.
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Literature cited:
Chauvin, Pierre-Marie. ‘La sociologie des réputations. Une définition et cinq questions’, Communications, 93(2), 131-145.
MacGugan, Joanna. Social Memory, reputation and the politics of death in medieval Irish lordship (2023).
Origgi, Gloria. La Réputation. Qui dit quoi de qui? (2015).
Origgi, Gloria. Reputation.What it is and why it matters (2018).
Wilson, Ian and Nigel Bryant (ed. et trans.). The Book of Geoffroi de Charny with the Livre Charny (2021).