Of Good and Ill Repute : Gender and Social Control in Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Hanawalt, Barbara A.
Of Good and Ill Repute : Gender and Social Control in Medieval England
- Published
- New York and Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 208 pp.
- Description
- Eleven essays by the author on establishing social control in late-medieval England, especially in London, considering topics such as class crime, rape, poaching, and family relations. The two essays that relate to Chaucer are printed elsewhere: "The Host, the Law, and the Ambiguous Space of Medieval London Taverns" (SAC 23 [2001], no. 93) and "Narratives of a Nurturing Culture: Parents and Neighbors in Medieval England" (SAC 22 [2000], no. 256).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.