A Genealogy Of Manners

Author : Jorge Arditi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226025841

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A Genealogy of Manners by Jorge Arditi Pdf

Remarkable for its scope and erudition, Jorge Arditi's new study offers a fascinating history of mores from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Drawing on the pioneering ideas of Norbert Elias, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu, Arditi examines the relationship between power and social practices and traces how power changes over time. Analyzing courtesy manuals and etiquette books from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century, Arditi shows how the dominant classes of a society were able to create a system of social relations and put it into operation. The result was an infrastructure in which these classes could successfully exert power. He explores how the ecclesiastical authorities of the Middle Ages, the monarchies from the fifteenth through the seventeenth century, and the aristocracies during the early stages of modernity all forged their own codes of manners within the confines of another, dominant order. Arditi goes on to describe how each of these different groups, through the sustained deployment of their own forms of relating with one another, gradually moved into a position of dominance.

Author : Kim Knott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317313687

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The Location of Religion by Kim Knott Pdf

The ways in which humans interact with their location is an important topic within sociological studies of religion. It is integral to the place of religion in secular society. 'The Location of Religion: A Spatial Analysis' offers an overview of the ways in which religion can be located within social, cultural and physical space. It examines contemporary spatial theory - notably the work of the influential sociologist Henri Lefebvre - and the many disciplines that have contributed to the spatial study of religion. This volume will be invaluable to all those interested in the role of religion in spatial analysis.

Author : Edmund Lodge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Nobility
ISBN : BSB:BSB10428313

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The Genealogy of the existing British Peerage with Sketches of the family histories of the Nobility by Edmund Lodge Pdf

Author : Susan North
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192598219

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Sweet and Clean? by Susan North Pdf

Sweet and Clean? challenges the widely held beliefs on bathing and cleanliness in the past. For over thirty years, the work of the French historian, George Vigarello, has been hugely influential on early modern European social history, describing an aversion to water and bathing, and the use of linen underwear as the sole cleaning agent for the body. However, these concepts do not apply to early modern England. Sweet and Clean? analyses etiquette and medical literature, revealing repeated recommendations to wash or bathe in order to clean the skin. Clean linen was essential for propriety but advice from medical experts was contradictory. Many doctors were convinced that it prevented the spread of contagious diseases, but others recommended flannel for undergarments, and a few thought changing a fever patient's linens was dangerous. The methodology of material culture helps determine if and how this advice was practiced. Evidence from inventories, household accounts and manuals, and surviving linen garments tracks underwear through its life-cycle of production, making, wearing, laundering, and final recycling. Although the material culture of washing bodies is much sparser, other sources, such as the Old Bailey records, paint a more accurate picture of cleanliness in early modern England than has been previously described. The contrasting analyses of linen and bodies reveal what histories material culture best serves. Finally, what of the diseases-plague, smallpox, and typhus-that cleanliness of body and clothes were thought to prevent? Did following early modern medical advice protect people from these illnesses?

Author : Mrs. Bloomfield H. Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020002874

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Sensible Etiquette of the Best Society, Customs, Manners, Morals, and Home Culture by Mrs. Bloomfield H. Moore Pdf

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Ethics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010418833

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A Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Pdf

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603845861

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On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

This new edition is the product of a collaboration between a Germanist and a philosopher who is also a Nietzsche scholar. The translation strives not only to communicate a sense of Nietzsche’s style but also to convey his meaning accurately—and thus to be an important advance on previous translations of this work. A superb set of notes ensures that Clark and Swensen's Genealogy will become the new edition of choice for classroom use.

Author : Allison Kim Shutt
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580465205

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Manners Make a Nation by Allison Kim Shutt Pdf

This book tells the story of how people struggled to define, reform, and overturn racial etiquette as a social guide for Southern Rhodesian politics. Underlying what appears to be a static history of racial etiquette is a dynamic narrative of anxieties over racial, gender, and generational status. From the outlawing of "insolence" toward officials to a last-ditch "courtesy campaign" in the early 1960s, white elites believed that their nimble use of racial etiquette would contain Africans' desire for social and political change. In turn, Africans mobilized around stories of racial humiliation. Allison Shutt's research provides a microhistory of the changing discourse about manners and respectability in Southern Rhodesia that by the 1950s had become central to fiercely contested political positions and nationalist tactics. Intense debates among Africans and whites alike over the deployment of courtesy and rudeness reveal the social-emotional tensions that contributed to political mobilization on the part of nationalists and the narrowing of options for the course of white politics. Drawing on public records, legal documents, and firsthand accounts, this first book-length history of manners in twentieth-century colonial Africa provides a compelling new model for understanding politics and culture through the prism of etiquette. Allison K. Shutt is professor of history at Hendrix College.

Author : Edmund Lodge
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375125288

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The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage and Baronetage by Edmund Lodge Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.

Author : Elizabeth McCahill
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674726154

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Reviving the Eternal City by Elizabeth McCahill Pdf

In 1420, after more than one hundred years of the Avignon Exile and the Western Schism, the papal court returned to Rome, which had become depopulated, dangerous, and impoverished in the papacy's absence. Reviving the Eternal City examines the culture of Rome and the papal court during the first half of the fifteenth century. As Elizabeth McCahill explains, during these decades Rome and the Curia were caught between conflicting realities--between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, between conciliarism and papalism, between an image of Rome as a restored republic and a dream of the city as a papal capital. Through the testimony of humanists' rhetorical texts and surviving archival materials, McCahill reconstructs the niche that scholars carved for themselves as they penned vivid descriptions of Rome and offered remedies for contemporary social, economic, religious, and political problems. In addition to analyzing the humanists' intellectual and professional program, McCahill investigates the different agendas that popes Martin V (1417-1431) and Eugenius IV (1431-1447) and their cardinals had for the post-Schism pontificate. Reviving the Eternal City illuminates an urban environment in transition and explores the ways in which curialists collaborated and competed to develop Rome's ancient legacy into a potent cultural myth.

Author : Sheryl Eberly
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780307952462

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365 Manners Kids Should Know by Sheryl Eberly Pdf

If you’ve ever cringed at the sight of your ten-year-old waltzing through the neighbor’s front door without an invitation, or struggled to teach your teenager proper “netiquette” for navigating the complicated world of social networks, you know the importance of teaching kids that manners matter. Sheryl Eberly’s bestselling 365 Manners Kids Should Know gives clever and insightful advice for the myriad situations where consideration counts, but is sometimes forgotten. This new edition incorporates tips for every aspect of digital communication into her straight-forward format. Using a smart one-manner-a-day organization, parents, grandparents, and teachers alike can find practical ways to teach essential manners like: - When and where it’s appropriate to text - How to write a thank-you note - The proper way to handle an online bully - How to behave at events like birthday parties, weddings,and religious services Full of role-playing exercises, games, and other activities that adults can do with children, 365 Manners Kids Should Know explains not only what manners to teach, but also how—and at what ages—to present them.

Author : D. Shlapentokh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230610422

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Societal Breakdown and the Rise of the Early Modern State in Europe by D. Shlapentokh Pdf

Shlapentokh asserts that asocial behavior in both medieval France and the contemporary West is not a marginal occurrence but rather a mainstream phenomena, and one that can often be stopped by strong force as the only antidote to social chaos.

Author : Jean E. Howard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812202304

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Theater of a City by Jean E. Howard Pdf

Arguing that the commercial stage depended on the unprecedented demographic growth and commercial vibrancy of London to fuel its own development, Jean E. Howard posits a particular synergy between the early modern stage and the city in which it flourished. In London comedy, place functions as the material arena in which social relations are regulated, urban problems negotiated, and city space rendered socially intelligible. Rather than simply describing London, the stage participated in interpreting it and giving it social meaning. Each chapter of this book focuses on a particular place within the city—the Royal Exchange, the Counters, London's whorehouses, and its academies of manners—and examines the theater's role in creating distinctive narratives about each. In these stories, specific locations are transformed into venues defined by particular kinds of interactions, whether between citizen and alien, debtor and creditor, prostitute and client, or dancing master and country gentleman. Collectively, they suggest how city space could be used and by whom, and they make place the arena for addressing pressing urban problems: demographic change and the influx of foreigners and strangers into the city; new ways of making money and losing it; changing gender roles within the metropolis; and the rise of a distinctive "town culture" in the West End. Drawing on a wide range of familiar and little-studied plays from four decades of a defining era of theater history, Theater of a City shows how the stage imaginatively shaped and responded to the changing face of early modern London.

Author : William N. West
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780810126985

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Renaissance Drama 38 by William N. West Pdf

Renaissance Drama, an annual interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore the traditional canon of drama, the significance of performance, broadly construed, to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theater, and performance. Volume 38 includes essays that explore topics in early modern drama ranging from Shakespeare’s Jewish questions in The Merchant of Venice and the gender of rhetoric in Shakespeare’s sonnets and Jonson’s plays to improvisation in the commedia dell’arte and the rebirth of tragedy in 1940 Germany.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801462115

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The Good Wife's Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris) by Anonim Pdf

In the closing years of the fourteenth century, an anonymous French writer compiled a book addressed to a fifteen-year-old bride, narrated in the voice of her husband, a wealthy, aging Parisian. The book was designed to teach this young wife the moral attributes, duties, and conduct befitting a woman of her station in society, in the almost certain event of her widowhood and subsequent remarriage. The work also provides a rich assembly of practical materials for the wife's use and for her household, including treatises on gardening and shopping, tips on choosing servants, directions on the medical care of horses and the training of hawks, plus menus for elaborate feasts, and more than 380 recipes. The Good Wife's Guide is the first complete modern English translation of this important medieval text also known as Le Ménagier de Paris (the Parisian household book), a work long recognized for its unique insights into the domestic life of the bourgeoisie during the later Middle Ages. The Good Wife's Guide, expertly rendered into modern English by Gina L. Greco and Christine M. Rose, is accompanied by an informative critical introduction setting the work in its proper medieval context as a conduct manual. This edition presents the book in its entirety, as it must have existed for its earliest readers. The Guide is now a treasure for the classroom, appealing to anyone studying medieval literature or history or considering the complex lives of medieval women. It illuminates the milieu and composition process of medieval authors and will in turn fascinate cooking or horticulture enthusiasts. The work illustrates how a (perhaps fictional) Parisian householder of the late fourteenth century might well have trained his wife so that her behavior could reflect honorably on him and enhance his reputation.