Practising shame: Female honour in later medieval England

Practising shame: Female honour in later medieval England

Author
Mary C Flannery
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Language
English
Year
2021
Page
228
ISBN
1526110075,9781526110077
File Type
epub
File Size
644.4 KiB

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 in which they were satirised and reappropriated by male authors. Working at the intersection of literary studies, gender studies and the history of emotions, it transforms our understanding of the ethical construction of femininity in the past and provides a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come.

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