Royal Historical Society Conference
Venue: Selwyn College, Cambridge.
Date: 24-25 March 1995
Papers:
Welcome (Anthony Fletcher);
'"To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon": gender and
honour in the Castlehaven story (Cynthia Herrup);
Public reputation in Country and Court: the case of the Hoby family
(Felicity Heal);
Honour in death and in the memory: funeral monuments in early modern
England (Nigel Llewellyn);
The construction of honour, reputation and status in late 17th- and
early 18th-century England (Faramerz Dabhoiwala);
Male honour, social control and wife-beating in late Stuart England
(Elizabeth Foyster);
Gender, discredit and dishonour in 17th-century England (Laura Gowing);
Boundaries of female honour: community, hierarchy and reputation in
early modern England (Garthine Walker);
Purging infected blood: anxiety for the lineal family in Jacobean drama
(Lisa Jardine).
CONTACT: The Executive Secretary, Royal Hist Soc, University College London,
Gower St., London, WC1E 6BT (tel. 071-387-7532).
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