Necessary Conjunctions: The Social Self in Medieval England

by David Gary Shaw

Necessary Conjunctions is an original study of how regular medieval people created their public social identities. Focusing especially on the world of English townspeople in the later Middle Ages, the book explores the social self, the public face of the individual. It gives special attention to how prevalent norms of honor, fidelity and hierarchy guided and were manipulated by medieval citizens. With variable success, medieval men and women defined...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403966893
• ISBN13: 9781403966896
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 8.5"