Examines our understanding of "the antebellum South, revealing how Southern men adopted an ancient honor code that shaped their society from top to bottom. Using legal documents, court cases, letters, diaries, memoirs, and newspapter columns, Wyatt-Brown offers fascinating examp…
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Examines our understanding of "the antebellum South, revealing how Southern men adopted an ancient honor code that shaped their society from top to bottom. Using legal documents, court cases, letters, diaries, memoirs, and newspapter columns, Wyatt-Brown offers fascinating examp…
"A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as "a work of enormous imagination and enterprise" and in The New York Times as "an important, original book," Southern Honor revolutionized our understanding of the antebellum South, r…
Honor was the core motivating factor for Colombians who participated in the Thousand Days’ War. It transcended racialized, gendered, and class-based societal boundaries. But these boundaries nevertheless determined how different elements of Colombian society at the turn of the t…
Rhetorical studies are deeply concerned with the way that human beings use language and symbols to interact and persuade others to follow a particular point of view, or plan of action. In the male dominant culture of 15th century France, Christine de Pizan recognized the limitat…
My dissertation explores the ethics of shame and honor at the end of the Republic to offer new perspectives on Tibullus’ work and Roman elegy. By situating Tibullus’ corpus within his contemporaries’ aristocratic discourse on honor, my research argues that the elegiac narrator i…
This project seeks to develop an expository preaching series on financial stewardship at Living Water Church in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. Chapter 1 presents the history and ministry context of Living Water Church and the goals of this project. Chapter 2 provides exegesis of the fo…
The culture of honor in the American South was a major influence on the social and moral direction of the Confederacy. However, the southern brand of honor in early America changed from how cultural honor had been represented historically. Cultural practices specific to the Sout…
This work uses the life of one man, Brigadier General Maxcy Gregg, to assess the life cycle of honor using newspapers, personal correspondence, pamphlets, and eulogies. Through early blunders with the public performance of honor, Gregg showcases honor’s relative flexibility as h…
Although Moroccan female-initiated migration to Europe has captured the attention of scholars in various fields of study, the majority of these studies have focused on macro-level analysis of resettlement and integration patterns. These studies, however, have bypassed the subtle…
This portfolio follows the development, from conception to completion, of the original stage play The Disguise of Honor. The script subtly explores several questions including: What is honor? What is shame? Who is God? What is the core conflict between Islam and Christianity? Wh…
This thesis explores the political reformation of “faction” in the political thought of Montesquieu, David Hume, and Edmund Burke, three thinkers whose works span what Pierre Manent calls “an exquisite moment of liberalism.” It examines the transformation of faction from one bas…
This book examines the notion of honor with an eye to dissecting its intellectual demise and with the aim of making a case for honor's rehabilitation. Western intellectuals acknowledge honor's influence, but they lament its authority. For Western democratic societies to embrace …
This book examines the notion of honor with an eye to dissecting its intellectual demise and with the aim of making a case for honor's rehabilitation. Western intellectuals acknowledge honor's influence, but they lament its authority. For Western democratic societies to embrace …
This book examines the notion of honor with an eye to dissecting its intellectual demise and with the aim of making a case for honor's rehabilitation. Western intellectuals acknowledge honor's influence, but they lament its authority. For Western democratic societies to embrace …
La 4e de couv. indique : "After a century-long hiatus, honor is back. Academics, pundits, and everyday citizens alike are rediscovering the importance of this ancient and powerful human motive. This volume brings together some of the foremost researchers of honor to debate honor…