medieval books of manners, and courtesy
Oct. 1st, 2007 04:25 pmWhile googling for information about medieval table manners and courtesy, I stumbled across a tremendous resource of out-of-copyright books on the topic.*
Early English meals and manners : with some forewords on education in Early England (1868)
Author: Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910
The boke of curtasye, an English poem of the fourteenth century (1841)
...includes a poem on the science of 14thc. cookery, 'Liber Cocorum'.
Author: Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889
A Fifteenth-century courtesy book (1914)
...includes two 15th c. Franciscan rules
Author: British Library. Manuscript. Additional 37969
(Early English Text Society)
English courtesy literature before 1557 (1919)
Author: Millett, Fred Benjamin, 1890-
'Bulletin of the depts of History and Political and Economic Science in Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada'
(very short, only 16 pages)
*Victorian England had a strong academic and popular interest in the middle ages.
The Early English Text Society was one group of academics who printed and published medieval texts. Their original purpose was to support research for the OED.
They put a great deal of original text within reach of ordinary readers, who otherwise would never get to read it. Thanks to them, in part, we now have several books like these available.