The Good Wife's Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris) : : A Medieval Household Book.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• TeilnehmendeR: Greco, Gina L.; Rose, Christine M.
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 2 halftones

In the closing years of the fourteenth century, an anonymous French writer compiled a book addressed to a fifteen-year-old bride, narrated in the voice of her husband, a wealthy, aging Parisian. The book was designed to teach this young wife the moral attributes, duties, and conduct befitting a woma...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction. Maid to Order: The Good Wife of Paris
• Translation Protocols
• The Good Wife'S Guide: Le Ménagier De Paris A Medieval Household Book
• Prologue
• Introductory Note to Articles 1.1- 1.3
• 1.1. Prayers and Orderly Dress
• 1.2. Behavior and Attire in Public
• 1.3. The Mass, Confession, the Vices and Virtues
• 1.4. On Chastity
• 1.5. Devotion to Your Husband
• 1.6 Obedience (Including the Story of Griselda)
• 1.7 The Care of the Husband's Person
• 1.8 The Husband's Secrets
• Introductory Note to Article 1.9
• 1.9 Providing Your Husband with Good Counsel (Including the Story of Melibee)
• Introductory Note to Article 2.1
• 2.1. Le Chemin De Povreté Et De Richesse
• 2.2. Horticulture
• 2.3. Choosing and Caring for Servants and Horses
• Introductory Note to Article 3.2
• 3.2. Hawking Treatise
• 2.4. Menus
• 2.5. Recipes
• Glossary of Culinary Terms
• Bibliography
• Index