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What is honor? Is it the same as reputation? Or is it rather a
sentiment? Is it a character trait, like integrity? Or is it simply
a concept too vague or incoherent to be fully analyzed?
In the first sustained comparative analysis of this elusive notion,
Frank Stewart writes that none of these ideas is correct. Drawing
on information about Western ideas of honor from sources as diverse
as medieval Arthurian romances, Spanish dramas of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, and the writings of German jurists of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and comparing the European
ideas with the ideas of a non-Western society--the Bedouin--Stewart
argues that honor must be understood as a right, basically a right
to respect. He shows that by understanding honor this way, we can
resolve some of the paradoxes that have long troubled scholars, and
can make sense of certain institutions (for instance the medieval
European pledge of honor) that have not hitherto been properly
understood.
Offering a powerful new way to understand this complex notion,
"Honor" has important implications not only for the social sciences
but also for the whole history of European sensibility.
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