Title: Of good and ill repute
First published: 1998
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 In eleven interrelated essays, including five previously unpublished works, Hanawalt explores how social control was maintained in Medieval England in the later Middle Ages.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.
Subjects: History, Social control, Sex role, Social history, Reputation (Law), Social conditions, Social status, Social history, medieval, 500-1500, Great britain, social conditions, Great britain, history, medieval period, 1066-1485, Women, great britain, Social status--history, Social status--england--history, Reputation (law)--history, Reputation (law)--england--history, Social control--history, Social control--england--history, Sex role--history, Sex role--england--history, Social history--medieval, 500-1500, Gender identity--history, Social conditions--history, Hn398.e5 h35 1998, 305.5/12/0942
Places: England
Time periods: Medieval, 500-1500, 1066-1485