Books taught conduct to newly urban literate classes
Evidence
In the fourteenth century, literate Frenchwomen of the emerging urban-based bourgeois might learn what behavior was appropriate for them by reading the Menagier de Parisā instructions to his young wife ā¦ When you go to town or to church go suitably accompanied by honourable women according to your estate, and flee suspicious company ā Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action inā¦, 649
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Establishes the āinstruction literatureā genre ā etiquette texts as instruments of urban-socialization before mass schooling.
Related
- Aspiring bourgeoisie learned urban manners mainly through public instruction from betters (similarity 0.81)
- Etiquette books taught public conduct most intensely when early industrial cities were most confusing. (similarity 0.80)
- Etiquette-book instruction waned as the modern city stabilized. (similarity 0.79)