Medieval conduct / Kathleen Ashley, Robert L.A. Clark, editors.
Focusing on a broad range of texts from England, France, Germany, and Italy-conduct and courtesy books, advise poems, devotional literature, trial records-the contributors to Medieval Conduct draw attention to the diverse ways in which readers of this literature could interpret such behavioral guide...
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Minneapolis :
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©2001.
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| Series: | Medieval cultures ;
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Table of Contents:
- Eating lessons : Lydgate's "dietary" and consumer conduct
- "For manners make man" : Bourdieu, de Certeau, and the common appropriation of noble manners in the Book of Courtesy
- "Nouvelles choses" : social instability and the problem of fashion in the Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry, the Ménagier de Paris, and Christine de Pizan's Livre des Trois Vertus
- The Miroir des bonnes femmes : not for women only?
- Fathers to think back through ; the middle high German mother-daughter and father-son advice poems known as Die Winsbeckin and der Winsbecke
- Gendered theories of education in fifteenth-century conduct books
- Constructing the female subject in late medieval devotion
- Conducting gender : theories and practices in Italian confraternity literature
- Grace under pressure : conduct and representation in the Norwich heresy trials.