Of Good and Ill Repute by Barbara A Hanawalt

Of Good and Ill Repute by Barbara A Hanawalt

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Explores the roles that community, family and society played in maintaining social control in Medieval England. This book focuses on gender, criminal behavior, law enforcement, village arbitration, and cultural rituals on inclusion and exclusion. It reflects the scholarship on medieval legal history, cultural history, and women's cultural studies.

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Of Good and Ill Repute by Barbara A Hanawalt

In eleven interrelated essays, including three previously unpublished works, Hanawalt explores the roles that community, family and society played in maintaining social control in Medieval England. Focusing on gender, criminal behavior, law enforcement, village arbitration, and cultural rituals on inclusion and exclusion, Of Good and Ill Repute reflects the most current scholarship on medieval legal history, cultural history, and women's cultural studies.

Barbara A. Hanawalt is an expert in medieval social history in England. Hanawalt has a long list of publications in scholarly journals and collections of essays. Crime and Community in Medieval England, 1300-1348 (1979), The Bonds That Bind: Peasant Families in Medieval England (1986), Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History (1993), Of Good and Ill Repute: Gender and Social Regulation in Medieval England (1999), and The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and the Economy in Late Medieval London (2007) are some of her writings. She also published seven volumes of articles on a variety of issues in medieval studies.

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ISBN 13 9780195109498
ISBN 10 019510949X
Title Of Good and Ill Repute
Author Barbara A Hanawalt
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Year published 1998-04-16
Number of pages 224
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.