Properties of Blood I.6: In Defense of Honor, Part D
On a more basic level, shame can be an intense feeling of embarrassment and inferiority. Romance languages express this feeling by using derivatives from the Latin verecundia: vergogna (Italian), verguenza (Spanish), vergogne (French). This sense of shame is an expansive category as Julio Caro Baroja points out in his historical account of Spanish honor. “Verecundia shows itself not only as chastity and modesty, as the blush which lewd speech or actions bring to the face, but also as respect for parents and elders, which prevents one from doing certain things in their presence, and as humility, reserve, and respect for...