Conduct Becoming: Good Wives and Husbands in the Later Middle Ages

by Glenn D Burger and Glenn D. Burger

Conduct Becoming examines a new genre of late medieval writing that focuses on a wife's virtuous conduct and ability of such conduct to alter marital and social relations in the world. Considering a range of texts written for women--the journ es chr tiennes or daily guides for Christian living, secular counsel from husbands and fathers such as Le Livre du Chevalier de La Tour Landry and Le Menagier de Paris, and literary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812249607
• ISBN13: 9780812249606
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"