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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808389203321

Titolo

Medieval conduct [[electronic resource] /] / Kathleen Ashley, Robert L.A. Clark, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8166-9156-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Medieval cultures ; ; v. 29

Altri autori (Persone)

AshleyKathleen M. <1944->

ClarkRobert L. A

Disciplina

809/.02

Soggetti

Literature, Medieval - History and criticism

Conduct of life in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Medieval Conduct: Texts, Theories, Practices; 1. Eating Lessons: Lydgate's "Dietary" and Consumer Conduct; 2. "For Manners Make Man": Bourdieu, de Certeau, and the Common Appropriation of Noble Manners in the Book of Courtesy; 3. "Nouvelles choses": Social Instability and the Problem of Fashion in the Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry, the MeĢnagier du Paris, and Christine de Pizan's Livre des Trois Vertus; 4. The Miroir des bonnes femmes: Not for Women Only?

5. Fathers to Think Back Through: The Middle High German Mother-Daughter and Father-Son Advice Poems Known as Die Winsbeckin and Der Winsbecke6. Gendered Theories of Education in Fifteenth-Century Conduct Books; 7. Constructing the Female Subject in Late Medieval Devotion; 8. Conducting Gender: Theories and Practices in Italian Confraternity Literature; 9. Grace under Pressure: Conduct and Representation in the Norwich Heresy Trials; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.