Losing Face: Shame, Society and the Self in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9781032129259 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 254 str.

Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos

Opis

This book is a study of shame in English society in the two centuries between c.1550 and c.1750, demonstrating the ubiquity and powerful hold it had on contemporaries over the entire era.

O autorze

Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos is Professor (emerita) of History at the Department of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her publications include Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England (1994), and The Culture of Giving: Informal Support and Gift-Exchange in Early Modern England (2008).