Books by Barbara Hanawalt

This volume takes a comprehensive look at the many types of city spectacles that entertained the masses and confirmed various messages of power in late medieval Europe. The authors reveal a public cognizant of the power of symbols to express its goals and achievements.

The essays in this text consider the way the human body is subjected to educational discipline, corporate celebration and to the production of gendered identity through the experiences of marriage and childbirth. It includes insights from history, literature, medieval studies and critical theory.

This work brings together the disciplines of history and English literature to present interpretations of late 14th-century English society.