Of good and ill repute : gender and social control in medieval England.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanawalt, Barbara A., 1941- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social control--England--History.

Social control.

Great Britain--Civilization--1066-1485.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Social life and customs--1066-1485.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

In eleven interrelated essays, this text explores the roles that community, family and society played in maintaining social control in medieval England. The essays focus on gender, criminal behaviour, law enforcement, and much more.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. ""Of Good and Ill Repute"": The Limits of Community Tolerance; 2. Rituals of Inclusion and Exclusion: Hierarchy and Marginalization in Medieval London; 3. The Power of Word and Symbol: Conflict Resolution in Late Medieval London; 4. Fur-Collar Crime: The Pattern of Crime among the Fourteenth-Century English Nobility; 5. At the Margins of Women's Space in Medieval Europe; 6. Separation Anxieties in Late Medieval London: Gender in ""The Wright's Chaste Wife""; 7. The Host, the Law, and the Ambiguous Space of Medieval London Taverns

8. Whose Story Was This? Rape Narratives in Medieval English Courts9. Men's Games, King's Deer: Poaching in Medieval England; 10. Narratives of a Nurturing Culture: Parents and Neighbors in Medieval England; 11. ""The Childe of Bristowe"" and the Making of Middle-Class Adolescence; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-771508-7

1-280-45314-1

1-4237-5940-0

0-19-802692-7

1-60256-641-0

OCLC:

960165430