Of good and ill repute
Subtitle: gender and social control in medieval England
By: Barbara A. Hanawalt.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Social status -- England -- History.; Reputation (Law) -- England -- History.; Social control -- England -- History.; Sex role -- England -- History.; Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.; England -- Social conditions -- 1066-1485.
Description: 'Of Good and Ill Repute' examines the complex social regulations and stigmatizations that medieval society used to arrive at its decisions about condemnation and exoneration. In eleven interrelated essays, including five previously unpublished works, Hanawalt explores how social control was maintained in Medieval England in the later Middle Ages.

Focusing on gender, criminal behavior, law enforcement, arbitration, and cultural rituals of inclusion and exclusion, 'Of Good and Ill Repute' reflects the most current scholarship on medieval legal history, cultural history, and gender studies. It looks at the medieval sermons, advice books, manuals of penance, popular poetry, laws, legal treatises, court records, and city and guild ordinances that drew the lines between good and bad behavior.

Written in a lively, accessible, and jargon-free style, this text is essential for upper level undergraduate history courses on medieval history and women's history as well as English courses on medieval literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.