| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 241 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Medieval cultures ; v. 29 |
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Medieval cultures ; v. 29.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 guides, appropriating them to their own ends |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Conduct of life in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
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Conduct of life in literature.
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Literature, Medieval.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ashley, Kathleen M., 1944- editor.
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Clark, Robert L. A., editor.
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| LC no. |
00012314 |
| ISBN |
9780816691562 |
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0816691568 |
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