Conduct, Husbandry, and Gardening
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Titre
Conduct, Husbandry, and Gardening
Titre du livre
Oxford Handbook of Middle English Prose
Editeur
Sebastian Sobecki and Emily Steiner
Statut éditorial
In Press
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Résumé
This invited chapter examines a range of domestic advice texts whose varied concerns include service at table, the qualities of an ideal wife, land management, and grafting trees. The materials selected are grouped according to the locations that they describe: the great household, the bourgeois home, and the homestead with its attendant garden. It is argued that the value of these materials lies both in their status as documents for social history and in their relation to other text types, including imaginative and travel literature. Throughout, the chapter is sensitive to connections between advice literature in Middle English prose and other kinds of writing, including Middle English verse and French and Latin texts. A conclusion considers the reception of the medieval materials examined by sixteenth-century readers.
Mots-clé
great household, table manners, bourgeois, Caxton, Caton, Book of the Knight of the Tower, domestic, advice literature, practical literature, grafting
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31/08/2023 15:41
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01/09/2023 7:22