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