Practising Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England.

Author / Editor
Flannery, Mary C.

Title
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