Screen LibraryConduct becoming : good wives and husbands in the later Middle Ages /
Conduct Becoming examines a new genre of late medieval writing that focuses on a wife's virtuous conduct and the ability of such conduct to alter marital and social relations in the world. Considering a range of texts written for women - the journées chrétiennes or daily guides for Christian li...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The Middle Ages series
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Conduct Becoming examines a new genre of late medieval writing that focuses on a wife's virtuous conduct and the ability of such conduct to alter marital and social relations in the world. Considering a range of texts written for women - the journées chrétiennes 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 narratives such as the Griselda story - Glenn D. Burger argues that, over the course of the long fourteenth century, the "invention" of the good wife in discourses |
| Carrier Form: | 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780812249606 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 0812249607 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | HQ1147 |
| CLC: |
D750.868-09 D750.81-09 |
| Call Number: | D750.81-09/B954 |
| Contents: | Introduction. Loving, reading, acting in a marrying kind of way -- Chapter 1. Laboring to make the good wife good in the Journées Chrétiennes -- Chapter 2. Remaking the feminine -- Chapter 3. In the merchant's bedchamber: Le Menagier de Paris -- Chapter 4. Affecting conduct: Feeling steadfast with Griselda -- Conclusion. |