Author: Eileen PowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The culture, arts, crafts and religion of the Plains Indians. Profusely illustrated.
The Goodman of Paris (Le Ménagier de Paris)
Author: Eileen PowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The culture, arts, crafts and religion of the Plains Indians. Profusely illustrated.
The goodman of Paris (Le menagier de Paris) a treatise on moral...
Author: The Goodman of Paris (Le Ménagier de Paris)
Author: Eileen PowerPublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843832225
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A first-hand view of life in medieval France, as seen through the eyes of an elderly man instructing his young wife. The Goodman of Paris (Le Ménagier de Paris) wrote this book for the instruction of his young wife around 1393. He was a wealthy and learned man, a member of that enlightened haute bourgeoisie upon which the French monarchy was coming to lean with increasing confidence. When he wrote his Treatise he was at least sixty but had recently married a young wife some forty years his junior. It fell to her to make his declining years comfortable, but it was his task to make it easy for her to do so. The first part deals with her religious and moral duties: as well as giving a unique picture of the medieval view of wifely behaviour it is illustrated by a series of storiesdrawn from the Goodman's extensive reading and personal experience. In the second part he turns from theory to practice and from soul to body, compiling the most exhaustive treatise on household management which has come downto us from the middle ages. Gardening, hiring of servants, the purchase and preparation of food are all covered, culminating in a detailed and elaborate cookery book. Sadly the author died before he could complete the third section on hawking, games and riddles. This unique glimpse of medieval domestic life presents a worldly, dignified and compelling picture in the words of a man of sensibility and substance. The distinguished historian EILEEN POWER was Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge.
The Goodman of Paris
Author: The Goodman of Paris (le Ménagier de Paris)
Author: The Goodman of Paris
Author: Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Goodman of Paris
Author: Eileen PowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Chaucer's Queer Nation
Author: Glenn BurgerPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452905327
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Queer theory and postcolonial analysis are brought to bear on Chaucer. Bruger argues that, under the pressure of producing a poetic vision for a new vernacular English audience in the 'Canterbury Tales', Chaucer reimagined late medieval relations between the body and the community.
The Concept of Work
Author: Herbert A. ApplebaumPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791411018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Se analiza el concepto de trabajo desde el punto de vista de la civilización occidental. Se ofrece una proyección de lo que puede ser el trabajo en el futuro, basado en las nuevas tecnologías y en el contexto de las nuevas condiciones sociales creadas por las modernas culturas industriales.
Wandering Women and Holy Matrons
Author: Leigh Ann CraigPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047427726
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This book explores women’s experiences of pilgrimage in Latin Christendom between 1300 and 1500 C.E. Later medieval authors harbored grave doubts about women’s mobility; literary images of mobile women commonly accused them of lust, pride, greed, and deceit. Yet real women commonly engaged in pilgrimage in a variety of forms, both physical and spiritual, voluntary and compulsory, and to locations nearby and distant. Acting within both practical and social constraints, such women helped to construct more positive interpretations of their desire to travel and of their experiences as pilgrims. Regardless of how their travel was interpreted, those women who succeeded in becoming pilgrims offer us a rare glimpse of ordinary women taking on extraordinary religious and social authority.