A Genealogy of Manners (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1998
First published:	December 1998
Authors:	Jorge Arditi
Dimensions:	153 x 230 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	322
Edition:	2nd Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-02584-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Etiquette & entertaining > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	0-226-02584-5
Barcode:	9780226025841

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