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The Book of the Knight of the Tower: Manners for Young Medieval Women

By Rebecca Barnhouse

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2006
ISBN
9781403969910, 9781403969910
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11136443 bytes)
Series
Studies in Arthurian and Court
Edition
First Edition
Pages
257\257
Library
demonoid.me
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47
Культурология;История культуры;История европейской

Description

In 1372 a French knight compiled a book of stories to teach his three daughters how to be good wives and good Christians. Here these tales are retold and interspersed with commentary about life in the late Middle Ages--what people wore, how they prayed, what they hoped for in this life and the next. The knight's stories range from the shockingly bawdy to the deeply pious. They include devils and miracles, fashionable ladies and haughty knights, lecherous monks and disobedient wives--all told to help the knight's daughters avoid what he calls blame, shame, and defame.

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