From courtesy to civility

From courtesy to civility

by Anna Bryson

Part of OXFORD STUDIES IN SOCIAL HISTORY

1998

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What counted as good and bad manners in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Anna Bryson explores what is often entertaining evidence for Tudor and Stuart ideas of bodily decency and decorum, table manners and polite conversation, and also shows the crucial importance of the values of "courtesy" and "civility" in an aristocratic society.

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