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.
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 June 15, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL2875.
