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Medieval Conduct
. Ed(S): Ashley, Kathleen; Clark, Robert L.A.
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Paperback. Editor(s): Ashley, Kathleen; Clark, Robert L.A. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 400.
What do books on how to behave tell us about society during the Middle Ages?
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 ... Read moreContributors: Mark Addison Amos, Southern Illinois U; Anna Dronzek, U of Minnesota, Morris; Roberta L. Krueger, Hamilton College; Ruth Nissé, U of Nebraska-Lincoln; Ann Marie Rasmussen, Duke U; Jennifer Fisk Rondeau, U of Oregon; and Claire Sponsler, U of Iowa. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816635764
SKU
V9780816635764
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99-15
About . Ed(S): Ashley, Kathleen; Clark, Robert L.A.
Kathleen Ashley is professor of English at the University of Southern Maine. Robert L. A. Clark is associate professor of French at Kansas State University.
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