Etiquette, Medieval

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Galateo of manners: or, instructions to a young gentleman how to behave himself in conversation, &c. Written originally in Italian, and done into English
Della Casa, Giovanni, 1503-1556.Date: 1703
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J. Casa his Galateus , or a treatise of manners. Wherein a father instructs his son ... Writ originally in Italian, ... Done into English from an elegant L[atin] version of N. Chytræus.
Della Casa, Giovanni, 1503-1556.Date: [1701?]
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Early English meals and manners : with some forewords on education in early England / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Date: 1868. [Reprinted 1894, 1904]
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The art of conversation . In three parts. I. The use and benefit of conversation in general, with Instructions to distinguish Good Company from Bad. The noxious Nature of Solitude, with the Evils and Mischiefs that generally attend it. II. Rules of behaviour in company abroad, adapted to all Ranks and Degrees of Persons; also the Conduct and Carriage to be observed between Princes and private Persons, Noblemen and Gentlemen, Scholars and Mechanicks, Natives and Strangers, Learned and Illiterate, Religious and Secular, Men and Women. III. Directions for the right ordering of conversation at home, between Husband and Wife, Father and Son, Mother and Daughter, Brother and Brother, Master and Servant. Interspers'd with many foreign proverbs and pleasant stories. The Whole fitted to Divert, Instruct, and Entertain Persons of every Taste, Quality, and Circumstance in Life. Written originally in Italian, by M. Stephen Guazzo. Translated formerly into French, and now into English.
Guazzo, Stefano, 1530-1593.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]
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A Fifteenth-century courtesy book / edited from the ms. by R.W. Chambers ... and two fifteenth-century Franciscan rules, ed. from the ms. by Walter W. Seton.
Date: 1914