Author: Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher:
ISBN: 019510949X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
In eleven interrelated essays, this text explores the roles that community, family and society played in maintaining social control in medieval England. The essays focus on gender, criminal behaviour, law enforcement, and much more.
Of Good and Ill Repute
Author: Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher:
ISBN: 019510949X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
In eleven interrelated essays, this text explores the roles that community, family and society played in maintaining social control in medieval England. The essays focus on gender, criminal behaviour, law enforcement, and much more.
Publisher:
ISBN: 019510949X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
In eleven interrelated essays, this text explores the roles that community, family and society played in maintaining social control in medieval England. The essays focus on gender, criminal behaviour, law enforcement, and much more.
Figures of Ill Repute
Author: Charles Bernheimer
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822319474
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Ubiquitous in the streets and brothels of nineteenth-century Paris, the prostitute was even more so in the novels and paintings of the time. Charles Bernheimer discusses how these representations of the sexually available woman express male ambivalence about desire, money, class, and the body. Interweaving close textual analysis with historical anecdote and theoretical speculation, Bernheimer demonstrates how the formal properties of art can serve strategically to control anxious fantasies about female sexual power. Drawing on methods derived from cultural studies, psychoanalysis, social history, feminist theory, and narrative analysis, this interdisciplinary classic (available now for the first time in paperback) was awarded Honorable Mention in 1990 for the James Russell Lowell prize awarded by the Modern Language Association for the best book of criticism.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822319474
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Ubiquitous in the streets and brothels of nineteenth-century Paris, the prostitute was even more so in the novels and paintings of the time. Charles Bernheimer discusses how these representations of the sexually available woman express male ambivalence about desire, money, class, and the body. Interweaving close textual analysis with historical anecdote and theoretical speculation, Bernheimer demonstrates how the formal properties of art can serve strategically to control anxious fantasies about female sexual power. Drawing on methods derived from cultural studies, psychoanalysis, social history, feminist theory, and narrative analysis, this interdisciplinary classic (available now for the first time in paperback) was awarded Honorable Mention in 1990 for the James Russell Lowell prize awarded by the Modern Language Association for the best book of criticism.
'Of Good and Ill Repute'
Author: Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198026927
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
To be labeled "of ill repute" in medieval society implied that a person had committed a violation of accepted standards and had stepped beyond the bounds of permissible behavior. To have a reputation "of good repute", however, was so powerful as to help a person accused of a crime be acquitted by his or her fellow peers. Labeling a person in medieval times was a complex matter. Often, unwritten codes of behavior determined who was of good repute and who was not. Members of the nobility committing a "fur-collar crime" might have considerable leeway to oppress their neighbors with violence and legal violations; however, a woman caught without appropriate attire and without the proper escort hazarded the label of a "woman of ill repute." Gender, class, social statutes, wealth, connections, bribes, friends, and the community all played a role in how quickly or how permanently a person's reputation was damaged. 'Of Good and Ill Repute' examines the complex social regulations and stigmatizations that medieval society used to arrive at its decisions about condemnation and exoneration. In eleven interrelated essays, including three previously unpublished works, Hanawalt explores how social control was maintained in Medieval England in the later Middle Ages. Focusing on gender, criminal behavior, law enforcement, arbitration, and cultural rituals of inclusion and exclusion, 'Of Good and Ill Repute' reflects the most current scholarship on medieval legal history, cultural history, and gender studies. It looks at the medieval sermons, advice books, manuals of penance, popular poetry, laws, legal treatises, court records, and city and guild ordinances that drew the lines between good and bad behavior. Written in a lively, accessible, and jargon-free style, this text is essential for upper level undergraduate history courses on medieval history and women's history as well as for English courses on medieval literature.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198026927
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
To be labeled "of ill repute" in medieval society implied that a person had committed a violation of accepted standards and had stepped beyond the bounds of permissible behavior. To have a reputation "of good repute", however, was so powerful as to help a person accused of a crime be acquitted by his or her fellow peers. Labeling a person in medieval times was a complex matter. Often, unwritten codes of behavior determined who was of good repute and who was not. Members of the nobility committing a "fur-collar crime" might have considerable leeway to oppress their neighbors with violence and legal violations; however, a woman caught without appropriate attire and without the proper escort hazarded the label of a "woman of ill repute." Gender, class, social statutes, wealth, connections, bribes, friends, and the community all played a role in how quickly or how permanently a person's reputation was damaged. 'Of Good and Ill Repute' examines the complex social regulations and stigmatizations that medieval society used to arrive at its decisions about condemnation and exoneration. In eleven interrelated essays, including three previously unpublished works, Hanawalt explores how social control was maintained in Medieval England in the later Middle Ages. Focusing on gender, criminal behavior, law enforcement, arbitration, and cultural rituals of inclusion and exclusion, 'Of Good and Ill Repute' reflects the most current scholarship on medieval legal history, cultural history, and gender studies. It looks at the medieval sermons, advice books, manuals of penance, popular poetry, laws, legal treatises, court records, and city and guild ordinances that drew the lines between good and bad behavior. Written in a lively, accessible, and jargon-free style, this text is essential for upper level undergraduate history courses on medieval history and women's history as well as for English courses on medieval literature.
Houses of Ill Repute
Author: Allison Glazebrook
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812247566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Houses of Ill Repute is the first book to focus on the difficulties of distinguishing between private homes and buildings, such as brothels and taverns, which housed activities neither public nor private in ancient Greece, providing a way forward for the study of domestic and entertainment spaces in the Hellenic world.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812247566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Houses of Ill Repute is the first book to focus on the difficulties of distinguishing between private homes and buildings, such as brothels and taverns, which housed activities neither public nor private in ancient Greece, providing a way forward for the study of domestic and entertainment spaces in the Hellenic world.
Crabb's English Synonymes
Author: George Crabb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
A Life of Ill Repute
Author: Maria Serena Mazzi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780228001546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The life of prostitutes in medieval European society.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780228001546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The life of prostitutes in medieval European society.
Crabb's English Synonymes
Author: George Crabb A.M.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
English Synonymes
Author: G. Crabb
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 1141912422
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 1141912422
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
English Synonymes
Author: George Crabb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Fama
Author: Thelma S. Fenster
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801488573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In medieval Europe, the word fama denoted both talk (what was commonly said about a person or event) and an individual's ensuing reputation (one's fama). Although talk by others was no doubt often feared, it was also valued and even cultivated as a vehicle for shaping one's status. People had to think about how to "manage" their fama, which played an essential role in the medieval culture of appearances.At the same time, however, institutions such as law courts and the church, alarmed by the power of talk, sought increasingly to regulate it. Christian moral discourse, literary and visual representation, juristic manuals, and court records reflected concern about talk. This book's authors consider how talk was created and entered into memory. They address such topics as fama's relation to secular law and the preoccupations of the church, its impact on women's lives, and its capacity to shape the concept of literary authorship.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801488573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In medieval Europe, the word fama denoted both talk (what was commonly said about a person or event) and an individual's ensuing reputation (one's fama). Although talk by others was no doubt often feared, it was also valued and even cultivated as a vehicle for shaping one's status. People had to think about how to "manage" their fama, which played an essential role in the medieval culture of appearances.At the same time, however, institutions such as law courts and the church, alarmed by the power of talk, sought increasingly to regulate it. Christian moral discourse, literary and visual representation, juristic manuals, and court records reflected concern about talk. This book's authors consider how talk was created and entered into memory. They address such topics as fama's relation to secular law and the preoccupations of the church, its impact on women's lives, and its capacity to shape the concept of literary authorship.