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Honor and shame in Western history / edited by Jörg Wettlaufer, David Nash and Jan Frode Hatlen.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Honor-Shame Dynamics in Western History (Workshop) (2018 : Bielefeld, Germany)
- Series:
- Routledge studies in cultural history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Honor--Europe--History.
- Honor.
- Shame--Europe--History.
- Shame.
- Social interaction--Europe--History.
- Social interaction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 263 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Contents:
- Part I. Honor and Shame: Concepts and Challenges
- The unwieldy phenomenon of honor / Dagmar Burkhart
- Shame: a social emotion and its cultural concepts in a historical (European) perspective / Jörg Wettlaufer
- Zero-sum emotions and shame-honor dynamics / Richard Landes.
- Part II. Honor and Shame in Traditional European Societies
- Honor-shame dynamics in late antiquity: balance and control / Jan Frode Hatlen
- Gregory of Tours on Sichar and Chramnesind / Richard Landes
- Better to die in honor than to live in shame?: a comparative approach to the literary dynamics of honor and shame in French Chanson de Geste, Romance, and Fabliau (Twelfth to Thirteenth Centuries) / Lisa Sancho
- The dynamics of gender-specific honor and shame in the Middle Ages: the 'Nibelungenlied' as example / Jutta Eming
- The emergence and social usage of shaming punishments in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries in Northwest European cities / Jörg Wettlaufer
- Christian humility, papal humiliations: an honor-and-shame criterion in the church's history grand narratives / Bénédicte Sère.
- Part III. Honor and Shame in Modernity
- Collective shame in the modern world: the case of blasphemy laws and tolerant sensibilities / David Nash
- The culture of American dueling under attack: the 1856 public beating of an abolitionist Massachusetts senator by a South Carolina congressman / Kenneth S. Greenberg
- Brought up with shame: trans-generational perspectives on disciplinary correction in Finland during the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries / Satu Lidman
- Plato, MeToo, the Honorable, and the Others / Hege Dypedokk Johnsen
- Shame, modernity, and postmodernity in Britain / David Nash.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 29, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Honor and shame in Western history
- ISBN:
- 9781003022916
- 100302291X
- 9781000852356
- 1000852350
- 9781000852387
- 1000852385
- Publisher Number:
- 99993409805
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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