From courtesy to civility
Subtitle: changing codes of conduct in early modern England
By: Anna Bryson.
Series: Oxford studies in social history
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Etiquette -- England -- History -- 16th century; Etiquette -- England -- History -- 17th century; England -- Social life and customs -- 16th century; England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [284]-302) and index.