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Article: Advice and Etiquette Books
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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ADVICE AND ETIQUETTE BOOKS
ADVICE AND ETIQUETTE BOOKS.
Advice and etiquette books have many names: courtesy books, books of conduct, books of manners, and books that teach "civility." They are different from practical "how to" books of advice, the manuals that taught Europeans how to cook, how to duel, and how to conceive a male child. Advice and etiquette books had other goals. They set forth the inherent or acquired qualities which the gentleman or gentlewoman must possess. They described the education, interests, and amusements that formed the ideal gentleman and gentlewoman. They discussed social conduct, what the individual should and should not do in the society of others. And ...
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