{"product_id":"practising-shame-female-honour-in-later-medieval-england-9781526110060","title":"Practising Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePracticing shame\u003c\/i\u003e investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame. A combination of inward reflection and outward comportment, this practice of ‘shamefastness’ was believed to reinforce women’s chastity of mind and body, and to communicate that chastity to others by means of conventional gestures. The book uncovers the paradoxes and complications that emerged from these emotional practices, as well as the ways in which they were satirised and reappropriated by male authors. Working at the intersection of literary studies, gender studies and the history of emotions, it transforms our understanding of the ethical construction of femininity in the past and provides a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This is a timely book entering the field at a moment when the study of the history of both sex and emotion is suddenly exploding, and when greater attention is being paid to embodied experience, not least of emotion. \u003ci\u003ePractising shame\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to those exploring these issues across time and place because it both offers an account with unnerving relevance for today and provides a successful model of how to answer some of these questions within a particular historical moment.'\u003cbr\u003eKatie Barclay, \u003ci\u003eJournal of British Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Flannery confronts the similitude between medieval and contemporary  expectations and denigrations head-on. In so doing she has written a  powerful and scholarly work that highlights both the relationship  between interiority and outer behaviour, and the textual communities  which have for so long created particular and gendered visions of  identity.'\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMegan Cassidy-Welch, Emotions: History, Culture, Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'To say that Mary Flannery’s \u003ci\u003ePractising shame \u003c\/i\u003eis timely would be an understatement. Through close analysis of popular and understudied texts, Flannery gives the reader a thorough tour of the double bind that is \u003ci\u003eshamefastness\u003c\/i\u003e, a bind that encouraged women to practice humility and yet, simultaneously, excoriated them for being false practitioners of shamefastness, as the practice was an obstacle for men’s lust...In our own moment, when the integrity of women’s testimony has stood at the center of high-profile trials and convictions, Flannery’s book reveals how deeply this ideological misogyny is embedded.'\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Michael Roman, \u003ci\u003eStudies in the Age of Chaucer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A powerful and scholarly work that highlights both the relationship between interiority and outer behaviour, and the textual communities which have for so long created particular and gendered visions of identity.'\u003cbr\u003eEmotions: History, Culture, Society (EHCS)\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 Show and tell: shame and the subject of women’s bodies\u003cbr\u003e2 Lessons in shame\u003cbr\u003e3 Shame under suspicion, shame under siege\u003cbr\u003e4 Death or dishonour: the problem of exemplary shame\u003cbr\u003e5 Shamefast Hoccleve and shameless craving\u003cbr\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040981057879,"sku":"9781526110060","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526110060.jpg?v=1750948481","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/practising-shame-female-honour-in-later-medieval-england-9781526110060","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}