Research Catalog

Title

Of good and ill repute : gender and social control in medieval England / Barbara A. Hanawalt.

Author

Hanawalt, Barbara A., 1941-

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

xiv, 208 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"'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 In eleven interrelated essays, including five previously unpublished works, Hanawalt explores how social control was maintained in Medieval England in the later Middle Ages.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 English courses on medieval literature."--Jacket.

Subject

• Geschichte 1200-1500
• 1066-1485
• Geschichte 1200-1500
• Social status > England > History
• Reputation (Law) > England > History
• Social control > England > History
• Sex role > England > History
• Social history > Medieval, 500-1500
• Gender Identity > history
• Social Conditions > history
• England > Social conditions > 1066-1485

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. "Of Good and III Repute": The Limits of Community Tolerance -- 2. Rituals of Inclusion and Exclusion: Hierarchy and Marginalization in Medieval London -- 3. The Power of Word and Symbol: Conflict Resolution in Late Medieval London -- 4. Fur-Collar Crime: The Pattern of Crime among the Fourteenth-Century English Nobility -- 5. At the Margins of Women's Space in Medieval Europe -- 6. Separation Anxieties in Late Medieval London: Gender in "The Wright's Chaste Wife" -- 7. The Host, the Law, and the Ambiguous Space of Medieval London Taverns -- 8. Whose Story Was This? Rape Narratives in Medieval English Courts -- 9. Men's Games, King's Deer: Poaching in Medieval England.

ISBN

• 0195109481 (alk. paper)
• 019510949X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97027325^

OCLC

• 37300670
• SCSB-10131482

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library