Credit Honour And reputation

Question 1

Source 1

Defamation in the Butcher’s Shop

Answer 1

11 December 1694
- Hannah Culliford vs. George Cotnish
- hannah us called a "drunken whore"
"Drunken shiten whore"
- other witness statements concur --> other statements include "pocky whore" "filthy whore"

Question 2

House scorning

Answer 2

• practise in 16th and 17th century

- cussing dwelling

Question 3

House scorning

Role of women

Answer 3

• slut shamed
• sexual advances
• male head white knight

Question 4

House scorning

1566 Pope’s General Proclamation

Answer 4

• for Rome

- commanded that houses not be destroyed, windows not brojen

Question 5

Work Honour: alexandra shepard argument

Argument

Answer 5

Men as breadwinner
This notion was challenged by women role as providers
Uses civil litigations to substantiate

Question 6

Work Honour: shepard

How were men attacked?

Answer 6

• made to seem lazy and not providing for fam
• questioning a mans word (thus ability to pay debt)
• dependance on other man was social stigma

Question 7

Work: honour
Example of case

Abandoning responsibilites over families

Answer 7

Robert Oliver, 1625
- descrubed as “bad husband” who depended on hid wife

• William Parry, 1592: made injury claim on similar claim
• John Newman, 1587: sues another person for claiming he had “starved” hus wifee

Question 8

Work: honour
Example of case

Calling man lazy or doubting his word

Answer 8

• John Nashe, 1584: didnt wanna hire a guy who looked poor –> couldbt trust his worth or word

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Question 9

Work: Honour shepard

Women as providers

Answer 9

• 90% of litigation debt cases survivr are for men

- may have been nominally for men

Question 10

Work: Honour shepard
Women as providers

Case examplrs of positive sense of occupational identity

Answer 10

• angus beeton 1618
• sues servant for accusing her of ‘unjust dealing’
• 1637: ann cartwright –> made injury claim based on work related insults

Question 11

Reputation: honour

Garthine Walker argument

Answer 11

• study of womens honour focuses on dishinour and shame

- alternative forms are overlooked

Question 12

Reputation: honour

WALKER

case example of women defending honour via work

Answer 12

August 1667, Joan Williamson
- Ellen Peake slapped her for calling her ‘my husbands whore’

• witnesses alluded to Ellens business undertakings “buy some grains”

Question 13

Reputation: honour

Role of good housewife to defend honour case example

Answer 13

1624, Anne blanchard: insulted another woman for not being a good housewife