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

by Anna Bryson

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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.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:019821765X

ISBN13:9780198217657

Release Date:November 1998

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:322 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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