Scorn, Shame, and the Simple Reader FICTION / Religious and memory studies

and memory studies

and then to the 1893 Chicago World Fair

while working feverishly to change them into something else

emphasizing how Latina youth themselves understand their sexuality

analyzing the broader impact of imperial policies

Scorn, Shame, and the Simple Reader FICTION / Religious and memory studiesAn investigation into how the emotional language in texts intended for solitary women became the foundation for a medieval Christian reading public Scorn, Shame, and the Simple Reader reveals how a cluster of rarely studied guides to the religious life helped forge a new identity in late medieval England. Lifting passages wholesale from texts originally intended only for holy virgins walled up in cells, these treatises turned Christlike shame and