The book of the knight of the tower : manners for young medieval women / Rebecca Barnhouse.
In 1372 a French knight compiled a book of stories to teach his three daughters how to be good wives and good Christians. Here these tales are retold and interspersed with commentary about life in the late Middle Ages?what people wore, how they prayed, what they hoped for in this life and the next....
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2006.
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| Series: | Studies in Arthurian and courtly cultures.
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. The world of the book
- Ch. 2. The prologues
- Ch. 3. Turn your hearts to God
- prayer
- Ch. 4. Driving the devil out
- fasting and confessing your sins
- Ch. 5. Hearing God's service
- going to mass
- Ch. 6. Taming the sparrowhawk
- manners and marriage
- Ch. 7. Obey without complaint
- being a wife
- Ch. 8. Beat them when they deserve it
- raising children
- Ch. 9. I tell you, I must have it
- Medieval fashion
- Ch. 10. Hearts set on this world
- acting fashionable
- Ch. 11. As fire kindles straw
- love and its games
- Ch. 12. The devil's subtle craft
- vice and sin
- Ch. 13. True women and good ladies
- virtuous living
- Ch. 14. Praising past time.