Narratives of a Nurturing Culture: Parents and Neighbors in Medieval England

Author / Editor
Hanawalt, Barbara A.

Title
Narratives of a Nurturing Culture: Parents and Neighbors in Medieval England

Published
Essays in Medieval Studies 12 (1995): 1-21.

Description
Examines various fourteenth- and fifteenth-century historical and literary texts to demonstrate that law and tradition encouraged parental and communal responsibility for the proper raising of children. Mentions PrT and the hagiography of Hugh of Lincoln.
Also published in "Of Good and Ill Repute": Gender and Social Control in Medieval England (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale.