Table of Contents

 

Part I: – Honor and Shame: Concepts and Challenges

1. The Unwieldy Phenomenon of Honor

Dagmar Burkhart

2. Shame: A Social Emotion and Its Cultural Concepts in a Historical (European) Perspective

Jörg Wettlaufer

 

3. Zero-Sum Emotions and Shame-Honor Dynamics

Richard Landes

 

Part II: Honor and Shame in Traditional European Societies

4. Honor-Shame Dynamics in Late Antiquity: Balance and Control

Jan Frode Hatlen

 

5. Gregory of Tours on Sichar and Chramnesind

Richard Landes

 

6. Better to die in honor than to live in shame?: A Comparative Approach to the Literary Dynamics of Honor and Shame in French Chanson de Geste, Romance, and Fabliau (Twelfth to Thirteenth Centuries)

Lisa Sancho

 

7. The Dynamics of Gender-Specific Honor and Shame in the Middle Ages. The Nibelungenlied as Example

Jutta Eming

 

8. The Emergence and Social Usage of Shaming Punishments in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries in Northwest European Cities

Jörg Wettlaufer

 

9. Christian Humility, Papal Humiliations: An Honor-and-Shame Criterion in the Church’s History Grand Narratives

Bénédicte Sère

 

Part III: Honor and Shame in Modernity

10. Collective Shame in the Modern World: The Case of Blasphemy Laws and Tolerant Sensibilities

David Nash

 

11. The Culture of American Dueling under Attack: The 1856 Public Beating of an Abolitionist Massachusetts Senator by a South Carolina Congressman

Kenneth S. Greenberg

 

12. Brought Up with Shame: Trans-Generational Perspectives on Disciplinary Correction in Finland during the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Satu Lidman

 

13. Plato, MeToo, the Honorable, and the Others

Hege Dypedokk Johnsen

 

14. Shame, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Britain

David Nash