A genealogy of manners : transformations of social relations in France and England from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century
Arditi's study offers a history of mores from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Drawing on the ideas of Elias, Foucault and Bourdieu, as well as through analysing courtesy manuals and etiquette books of the times, he examines the relationship between power and social practices and traces how power changes over the centuries.
History
312 s
9780226025834, 9780226025841, 0226025837, 0226025845
185631483
Acknowledgments 1: Manners, Social Relations, and Power 2: Centeredness, Social Coalescence, and the Hegemony of Ecclesias 3: Courtesy, Detachment, and the Transformations of the Relational Order 4: Civility and the Politics of Grace 5: Honnetete and the Consolidation of Royal Centrality 6: Paradoxes of the English Gentleman 7: Etiquette and the Constitution of Multicenteredness 8: Foundational Metamorphoses Notes Bibliography Index
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--State University of New York at Stony Brook