The Babees' Book: Medieval Manners for the Young

The Babees' Book: Medieval Manners for the Young

The Babees' Book: Medieval Manners for the YoungIN this present day, when chivalry has achieved at last...
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Author: Furnivall, Frederick James,1825-1910
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Language: English
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The Babees' Book: Medieval Manners for the Young

The Babees' Book: Medieval Manners for the Young

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The Babees' Book: Medieval Manners for the Young

$18.45 $9.22
Author: Furnivall, Frederick James,1825-1910
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Babees' Book: Medieval Manners for the Young

IN this present day, when chivalry has achieved at last its perfect bloom, it is hard to realize that but a scant four centuries ago the children of even the very best families in England had to be taught their table manners. Today the graces of deportment come by nature to our youth; and the generation that has produced the immortal Rollo can not comprehend the rude manners of the bela babee, or beautiful well-born boy of Queen Elizabeths time. O, tempora! O, mores! How the times change and manners multiply! But throughout the centurieson the lengthening road of which we shall plant another milestone presently with feasting and merry-makinggood manners and bad have ever gone hand in hand. And ever has he of the mind conscious of virtue looked smugly down on the artless and indifferent vulgarian. The Babees Book, from which some quaint extracts are here reprinted, is from old Dr. Furnivalls collection of Divers treaties touching the Manners and Meals of Englishmen in former days. It gives a moving picture of the domestic life of the Middle Ages. The present translation out of the archaic language of the Fifteenth Century into intelligible English has been made by Edith Rickert, who seems to have preserved with skill and fidelity the spirit and form of the antiquated original. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 58392
Author: Furnivall, Frederick James
Release Date: Dec 1, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Rickert, Edith, 1871-1938

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