Blasphemy : Impious Speech in the West from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century

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.Cabantous, Alain is the author of 'Blasphemy : Impious Speech in the West from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century', published 2005 under ISBN 9780756788964 and ISBN 075678896X.