“Readings for Now” Seminar #10: "HOUSE HISTORY MANNERS”

READINGS

Selections from Norbert Elias, The History of Manners: “On Behavior at Table,” 84-129, and Appendix 1: Introduction to the 1968 Edition, 221-263
Philippe Braunstein, “Toward Intimacy: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries,” in A History of Private Life, Volume II: Revelations of the Medieval World, ed. Georges Duby, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (series eds: Phillippe Ariès and Georges Duby), 534-630