Practising shame: female honour in later medieval england
Auteur :
Flannery, Mary C.
Éditeur :
Manchester University Press
ISBN :
9781526110077
Date de publication :
2 nov. 2021
Dimensions :
21,6 x 13,8 x 1,2 cm
Poids :
272 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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. -- .