Narratives of a Nurturing Culture: Parents and Neighbors in Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Hanawalt, Barbara A.
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.