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FROM COURTESY TO CIVILITY
CHANGING CODES OF CONDUCT IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND

By:

Anna Bryson

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Hardback

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Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

30 July, 1998

Series:

Oxford Studies in Social History

Pages:

322

Description:

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.

Synopsis:

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.

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