Practising Shame Female Honour in Later Medieval England

Practicing shame explores how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to secure their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against shame. The book transforms our understanding of the construction of femininity in the past and offers a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Mary C. Flannery is a Swiss National Science Foundation Eccellenza Professorial Fellow at the University of Bern

Zusammenfassung

Practicing shame explores how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to secure their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against shame. The book transforms our understanding of the construction of femininity in the past and offers a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come. -- .

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Mary C. Flannery, Mary C Flannery, Flannery Mary C.
• Mitarbeit: Anke Bernau (Herausgeber), David Matthews (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.11.2021
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik
• EAN: 9781526110077
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1007-7
• Anzahl Seiten: 288
• Serie: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature
• Themen: Gender, Habitus, Habit, Practice, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, medieval, Masculinity, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Literature: history and criticism, Femininity, Shame, Honour, Emotion; femininity; Gender; habit; habitus; Honour; masculinity; Medieval; Practice; Shame