Medieval Conduct: Volume 29

by Robert L.A. Clark, Robert L. A. Clark, Kathleen Ashley

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816635765
• ISBN13: 9780816635764
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"