Shame and Honor: A Vulgar History of the Order of the Garter
Stephanie Trigg
352 pages | 6 x 9 | 30 illus.
Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4391-8 | $55.00 | £36.00
Shame and Honor is a cultural history of the Order of the Garter, a medieval institution that persists into the twenty-first century. It explores the changing meaning of medieval culture and ritual practice, and of shame and honor, for early modern, post-medieval, and contemporary culture.
"It's a nice piece of pageantry. . . . Rationally it's lunatic, but in practice, everyone enjoys it, I think."–HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
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