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Practising Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England

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Practising Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England - Flannery, Mary C
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Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame. A combination of inward reflection and outward comportment, this practice of 'shamefastness' was believed to reinforce women's chastity of mind and body, and to communicate that chastity to others by means of conventional gestures. The book uncovers the paradoxes and complications that emerged from these emotional practices, as well as the ways ...

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Practising Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England 2021, Manchester University Press, Manchester

ISBN-13: 9781526110077

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Practising Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England 2019, Manchester University Press, Manchester

ISBN-13: 9781526110060

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