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

Zusatztext 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung In any society, a foreigner learning the language must also learn what passes for good manners. The same is true for the historian trying to understand the social rules of a period and why these change. This book explores the nature and development of early modern conceptions of good manners, and examines some of the particular forms of everyday behaviour which these conceptions implied. `Courtesy' and `Civility' were among the values central to Tudor and Stuart assumptions and fears about the social and political order.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Bryson, Anna (Advisor Bryson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.1998
• EAN: 9780198217657
• ISBN: 978-0-19-821765-7
• No. of pages: 322
• Series: Oxford Studies in Social History; Oxford Studies in Social Histo; Oxford Studies in Social History; Oxford Studies in Social Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries