Description |
xx, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Series |
Medieval cultures ; v. 29 |
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Medieval cultures ; v. 29
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Contents |
Introduction Medieval conduct : texts, theories, practices / Kathleen Ashley and Robert L.A. Clark -- Eating lessons : Lydgate's "Dietary" and consumer conduct / Claire Sponsler -- "For manners make man" : Bourdieu, de Certeau, and the common appropriation of noble manners in the Book of Courtesy / Mark Addison Amos -- "Nouvelles choses" : social instability and the problem of fashion in the Livre du Chevalier da la Tour Landry, the Ménagier du Paris, and Christine de Pizan's Livre des Trois Vertus / Roberta L. Krueger -- Miroir des bonnes femmes : not for women only? / Kathleen Ashley -- Fathers to think back through : the middle high German mother-daughter and father-son advice poems known as Die Winsbeckin and Der Winsbecke / Ann Marie Rasmussen -- Gendered theories of education in fifteenth-century conduct books / Anna Dronzek -- Constructing the female subject in late medieval devotion / Robert L.A. Clark -- Conducting gender : theories and practices in Italian confraternity literature / Jennifer Fisk Rondeau -- Grace under pressure : conduct and representation in the Norwich heresy trials / Ruth Nissé |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Conduct of life in literature.
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Courtesy books.
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Women -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
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Author |
Ashley, Kathleen M., 1944-
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Clark, Robert L. A.
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LC no. |
00012314 |
ISBN |
0816635757 (acid-free paper) |
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0816635765 (paperback: acid free paper) |
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