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

by Anna Bryson

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"