Venomous Tongues : : Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England / / Sandy Bardsley.
Sandy Bardsley examines the complex relationship between speech and gender in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and engages debates on the static nature of women's status after the Black Death. Focusing on England, Venomous Tongues uses a combination of legal, literary, and artistic source...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014] ©2006 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 4 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Speech, Gender, and Power in Late Medieval England
- Chapter 1. ''Sins of the Tongue'' and Social Change
- Chapter 2. The Sins of Women's Tongues in Literature and Art
- Chapter 3. Women's Voices and the Law
- Chapter 4. Men's Voices
- Chapter 5. Communities and Scolding
- Chapter 6. Who Was a Scold?
- Conclusion: Consequences of the Feminization of Deviant Speech
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments