Genealogy of Manners Transformations of Social Relations in France and England from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century

Name: Genealogy of Manners Transformations of Social Relations in France and England from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century
Price: 10.91 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780226025841

ISBN-10: 0226025845

ISBN-13: 9780226025841

Edition: 1998

Authors: Jorge Arditi

List price: $37.00

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $36.54

Marketplace

3 new & used from $10.91

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Remarkable for its scope and erudition, Jorge Arditi's new study offers a fascinating history of mores from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Drawing on the pioneering ideas of Norbert Elias, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu, Arditi examines the relationship between power and social practices and traces how power changes over time. Analyzing courtesy manuals and etiquette books from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century, Arditi shows how the dominant classes of a society were able to create a system of social relations and put it into operation. The result was an infrastructure in which these classes could successfully exert power. He explores how the ecclesiastical…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 322
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.91" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Manners, Social Relations, and Power



Centeredness, Social Coalescence, and the Hegemony of Ecclesias



Courtesy, Detachment, and the Transformations of the Relational Order



Civility and the Politics of Grace



Honnetete and the Consolidation of Royal Centrality



Paradoxes of the English Gentleman



Etiquette and the Constitution of Multicenteredness



Foundational Metamorphoses


Notes


Bibliography


Index