Mother Knows Best: Reading Social Change in a Courtesy Text

Riddy, Felicity

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“…The main audience for this emerging material was aspiring middle-class and moderate elites (Phillips, 2003, p. 83). The migration of teenagers to towns and cities from the countryside, the rise of bourgeois and mercantile classes, and an increase in young men and women working away from home in other households meant that social and family structures were changing (Riddy, 1996). Absent parents meant that "in urban households, mistresses and female employers played a central part in the upbringing of young women working within the household" (Phillips, 2003, p. 76); high status young people would have learned behaviour at home and so had no need for texts (Phillips, 2003, p. 83).…”

Section: Advice Literature Method and Data Collectionmentioning

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The rough guide to love: romance, history and sexualization in gendered relationship advice

Burge

2017

Journal of Gender Studies

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Section: Advice Literature Method and Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The rough guide to love: romance, history and sexualization in gendered relationship advice

Burge

2017

Journal of Gender Studies

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“…Elle légua le bol décoré par une image de saint Georges à son fils cadet Henry 34 . Quand elle rédigea son testament en 1539, Alice Lord était veuve depuis six ans ; Henry, qui n'était pas 31 Riddy 1996. 32 Dyer 2005 The National Archives, Kew (TNA) Prob11/27/252.…”

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Nouveaux arts de la table et convivialités sexuées

French¹

2014

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“…Examining one example of this literature. "How the Good Wife Taught Her Daughter," Eelicity Riddy points to the lack of interest in interiorized piety (Riddy 1996). Furthermore, restraint in gesture and comportment, signaling both class identity and sexual purity, are emphasized in courtesy cr conduct literature for women (Phillips 2000).…”

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Venerating the veronica: varieties of passion piety in the later middle ages

Clark

2007

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This article examines a particular devotional image in late medieval piety: the Veronica or "portrait" of Jesus said to have been created when Jesus wiped his tace on Veronica's cloth on the way to Calvary. The analysis addresses how lay women in particular may have related to this image, acknowledging that their religious experience was shaped not simply by religious instruction but also by instruction in manners and bodily comportment offered in conduct literature. The larger context for examining this devotion to the Veronica is medieval Passion piety in which strong emotional response was stimulated by text and image, and this emotional experience was often iinked with hostility against Jews as perpetrators of the crucifixion. The devotional possibilities offered by Books of Hours, a piety mediated by gazing at pictures, is compared to evidence for extremely emotionai Passion devotions. The essay highlights seeing and relationships to objects as problems for the understanding of religion; it also emphasizes the possibilities of diverse appropriations of symbols {such as the Passion) within a religious context.

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Mother Knows Best: Reading Social Change in a Courtesy Text

Cited by 76 publications

References 1 publication

The rough guide to love: romance, history and sexualization in gendered relationship advice

The rough guide to love: romance, history and sexualization in gendered relationship advice

Nouveaux arts de la table et convivialités sexuées

Venerating the veronica: varieties of passion piety in the later middle ages

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