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. -- .

• | By (Author): Mary C. Flannery
• | Publisher: Manchester University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 02, 2021
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1526110075
• | ISBN-13: 9781526110077