Practising Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England.
- Author / Editor
- Flannery, Mary C.
Practising Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England.
- Published
- Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 213 pp.
- Description
- Investigates how medieval English literature "encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame." Includes discussion of women’s virtue and honor during Chaucer's time, with particular emphasis on the Wife of Bath in WBPT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale