The Use of Shame as a Method of Social Control

In early irish law, if a woman am claimed to be menstrating, and her husband didn't believe her and thought that she was lying about it then it could go to legal arbitration. An a woman witness could be brought in to examine the woman and check that she was indeed menstruating. And if she wasn't, she would be forced to pay a fine to her husband. So i think y the kind of use of shame as a method of sort of social control is very much there in in the kind of legal texts and penitential texts that i i look at in the book brilling wis. A way to kind of try and understand the mediaeval mind set