Honor and shame in Western history / edited by Jörg Wettlaufer, David Nash and Jan Frode Hatlen.

"This book covers a wide range of topics related to honor and shame in European historical societies: history of law and literature, social- and ancient history as well as theoretical contributions on the state of research and the importance of honor and shame in traditional societies. Honor and shame in Western history brings together fourteen texts of interdisciplinary scholars from Europe and North America. It covers a wide range of topics related to honor and shame in historical societies. The contributions cover periods of Western history from Greek and Roman times to the 19th century and many of them integrate the concept of a "Deep History" of honor and shame in social interaction. The book is essential for a broad audience interested in social history and the history of emotions"-- Provided by publisher.

Part I. Honor and Shame: Concepts and Challenges -- The unwieldy phenomenon of honor / Dagmar Burkhart -- Shame: a social emotion and its cultural concepts in a historical (European) perspective / J̲rg Wettlaufer -- Zero-sum emotions and shame-honor dynamics / Richard Landes.

Part II. Honor and Shame in Traditional European Societies -- Honor-shame dynamics in late antiquity: balance and control / Jan Frode Hatlen -- Gregory of Tours on Sichar and Chramnesind / Richard Landes -- 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 -- The dynamics of gender-specific honor and shame in the Middle Ages: the 'Nibelungenlied' as example / Jutta Eming -- The emergence and social usage of shaming punishments in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries in Northwest European cities / J̲rg Wettlaufer -- 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 -- Collective shame in the modern world: the case of blasphemy laws and tolerant sensibilities / David Nash -- The culture of American dueling under attack: the 1856 public beating of an abolitionist Massachusetts senator by a South Carolina congressman / Kenneth S. Greenberg -- Brought up with shame: trans-generational perspectives on disciplinary correction in Finland during the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries / Satu Lidman -- Plato, MeToo, the Honorable, and the Others / Hege Dypedokk Johnsen -- Shame, modernity, and postmodernity in Britain / David Nash.