Medieval Conduct

What do books on how to behave tell us about society during the Middle Ages?Focusing on a broad range of texts from England, France, Germany, and Italy—conduct and courtesy books, advice poems, devotional literature, trial records—the contributors to Medieval Conduct draw attention to the diverse ways in which readers of this literature could interpret such behavioral guides, appropriating them to their own ends. Medieval Conduct expands the concept of conduct to include historicized practices,