Medieval Conduct

Focusing on a broad range of texts from England, France, Germany, and Italy -- conduct and courtesy books, advice 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.Medieval Conduct expands the concept of conduct to include historicized practices, and theorizes the connection between texts and their concrete social uses; what emerges is a nuanced interpretation of the role of gender and class inscribed in such texts. By bringing to light these subtleties and complexities, the authors also reveal the ways in which the assumptions of literary history have shaped our reception of such texts in the past two centuries.

Summary

Medieval conduct texts provided behavioral guidelines for men, women and children on a wide range of issues, including food, fashion and general behaviour.

Product details

• Authors: Ashley, Kathleen Ashley, Kathleen Clark Ashley, ASHLEY KATHLEEN CLARK ROBERT L A
• Assisted by: Kathleen Ashley (Editor), Robert L. Clark (Editor), Robert L. a. Clark (Editor), Robert L.A. Clark (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2001
• EAN: 9780816635764
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-3576-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Medieval Cultures; Medieval Cultures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories