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Renaissance Concepts of Shame and Pocaterra's Dialoghi Delia Vergogna

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Werner L. Gundersheimer
Werner L. Gundersheimer*
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The Folger Shakespeare Library
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Persons of authority in early modern Europe—whether parents, preachers or princes—knew well that among the resources available to them for controlling behavior and maintaining hierarchies, there was always shame. Humankind, to its woe, had experienced shame in the Garden of Eden. Noah had been shamed by his nakedness, Sarah by her barrenness, Jacob by his effeminate body, Potiphar's wife through her brazen advances. Hesiod had introduced two sorts of shame: the right kind, derived from modesty; and the wrong kind, produced by poverty. These instances, and many others from ancient and medieval sources, lay at hand for easy use by Renaissance moralists, and who is not a moralist? Applying their own imaginative skills to techniques and rituals of humiliation, medieval and early modern people devised such innovations as the pitture infamanti, the dunce cap, the stocks, the charivari, the yellow badge.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , Spring 1994 , pp. 34 - 56
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1994

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