Of Good and Ill Repute: Gender and Social Control in Medieval England

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Acknowledgments vii
• Introduction ix
• Notes xiv
• 1 - 'Of Good and Ill Repute': The Limits of Community Tolerance 1
• Notes 15
• 2 - Rituals of Inclusion and Exclusion: Hierarchy and Marginalization in Medieval London 18
• Notes 31
• 3 - The Power of Word and Symbol: Conflict Resolution in Late Medieval London 35
• Notes 49
• 4 - Fur-Collar Crime: The Pattern of Crime Among the Fourteenth-Century English Nobility 53
• Notes 66
• 5 - At the Margins of Women's Space in Medieval Europe 70
• Notes 84
• 6 - Separation Anxieties in Late Medieval London: Gender in The Wright's Chaste Wife"" 88

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Acknowledgments vii
• Introduction ix
• Notes xiv
• 1 - 'Of Good and Ill Repute': The Limits of Community Tolerance 1
• Notes 15
• 2 - Rituals of Inclusion and Exclusion: Hierarchy and Marginalization in Medieval London 18
• Notes 31
• 3 - The Power of Word and Symbol: Conflict Resolution in Late Medieval London 35
• Notes 49
• 4 - Fur-Collar Crime: The Pattern of Crime Among the Fourteenth-Century English Nobility 53
• Notes 66
• 5 - At the Margins of Women's Space in Medieval Europe 70
• Notes 84
• 6 - Separation Anxieties in Late Medieval London: Gender in The Wright's Chaste Wife"" 88
• Notes 101
• 7 - The Host, the Law, and the Ambiguous Space of Medieval London Taverns 104
• Notes 118
• 8 - Whose Story Was This? Rape Narratives in Medieval English Courts 124
• Notes 138
• 9 - Men's Games, King's Deer: Poaching in Medieval England 142
• Notes 155
• 10 - Narratives of a Nurturing Culture: Parents and Neighbors in Medieval England 158
• Notes 175
• 11 - The Childe of Bristowe" and the Making of Middle-Class Adolescence" 178
• Notes 194
• Index 203