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Author: Barbara A. Hanawalt
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 019510949X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Charles Bernheimer
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780822319474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUbiquitous 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.
Author: Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998-02-12
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0198026927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo 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.
Author: William Rivers Pitt
Publisher: Polipoint Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780977825325
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Author: Allison Glazebrook
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016-05-18
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0812247566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHouses 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.
Author: Maria Serena Mazzi
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780228001546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe life of prostitutes in medieval European society.
Author: George Crabb
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 744
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 736
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780195045642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBarbara A. Hanawalt's richly detailed account offers an intimate view of everyday life in Medieval England that seems at once surprisingly familiar and yet at odds with what many experts have told us. She argues that the biological needs served by the family do not change and that the ways fourteenth- and fifteenth-century peasants coped with such problems as providing for the newborn and the aged, controlling premarital sex, and alleviating the harshness of their material environment in many ways correspond with our twentieth-century solutions. Using a remarkable array of sources, including over 3,000 coroners' inquests into accidental deaths, Hanawalt emphasizes the continuity of the nuclear family from the middle ages into the modern period by exploring the reasons that families served as the basic unit of society and the economy. Providing such fascinating details as a citation of an incantation against rats, evidence of the hierarchy of bread consumption, and descriptions of the games people played, her study illustrates the flexibility of the family and its capacity to adapt to radical changes in society. She notes that even the terrible population reduction that resulted from the Black Death did not substantially alter the basic nature of the family.
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 524
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