From Courtesy to Civility: Changing Codes of Conduct in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9780198217657 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 320 str.

Anna Bryson

Opis

What counted as good and bad manners in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Anna Bryson explores what is often entertaining evidence for Tudor and Stuart ideas of bodily decency and decorum, table manners and polite conversation, and also shows the crucial importance of the values of "courtesy" and "civility" in an aristocratic society.

Recenzje

Anna Bryson's book is welcome as one of the few sustained analyses of the body of prescriptive and didactic literature which was published in considerable bulk in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries .../ ... a scholarly and imaginative book./ James Sharpe, TLS, 9/7/99.