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The Making of Manners and Morals in Twelfth-Century England - The Book of the Civilised Man (Paperback)
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The Making of Manners and Morals in Twelfth-Century England - The Book of the Civilised Man (Paperback)
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How different are we from those in the past? Or, how different do
we think we are from those in the past? Medieval people were more
dirty and unhygienic than us - as novels, TV, and film would have
us believe - but how much truth is there in this notion? This book
seeks to challenge some of these preconceptions by examining
medieval society through rules of conduct, and specifically through
the lens of a medieval Latin text entitled The Book of the
Civilised Man - or Urbanus magnus - which is attributed to Daniel
of Beccles. Urbanus magnus is a twelfth-century poem of almost
3,000 lines which comprehensively surveys the day-to-day life of
medieval society, including issues such as moral behaviour,
friendship, marriage, hospitality, table manners, and diet.
Currently, it is a neglected source for the social and cultural
history of daily life in medieval England, but by incorporating
modern ideas of disgust and taboo, and merging anthropology,
sociology, and archaeology with history, this book aims to bring it
to the fore, and to show that medieval people did have standards of
behaviour. Although they may seem remote to modern 'civilised'
people, there is both continuity and change in human behaviour
throughout the centuries.
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