Practising Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England
- Author
- Mary C. Flannery
- Series
- Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture, vol. 29
- Content
- xiii + 213 pp., bibl., index
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- Manchester: Manchester University Press
- Description
- Examines the concept of shamefastness as a set of behaviors and feelings that girls and women were supposed to internalize and learn to perform and also were used to constrain them.
- Main subject
- Literature and Literary Criticism
- ISBN
- 9781526110060 (cloth); 9781526110077 (pap.); 9781526110091 (ebook)
- Citation
- Flannery, Mary C. Practising Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England. Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture, vol. 29. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. Sylvia. Accessed November 21, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL2875.
- Updated
- 11-16-2023