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courtesy Books
A book that gives advice to aspiring young courtiers in etiquette and other aspects of behaviour expected at royal or noble courts. This kind of work—sometimes written in verse—first became popular ...
Sesyle Joslin
(1929–), American author famous for two humorous books of manners illustrated by Maurice Sendak, What Do You Say, Dear? (1948), a Caldecott Honor winner, and What Do You Do, Dear? ...
Guls Horne-Booke
A satirical book of manners by Dekker, published 1609.It is an attack on the fops and gallants of the day under the guise of ironical instructions how they may make themselves conspicuous in places ...
Gull's Horn-Book
A satire on fops and gallants by Thomas Dekker, published 1609, parodying the courtesy books of the period, and suggested by a German original (see Grobian). As a sociological document it reveals ...
courtliness and courtesy
[OFr. cort, curtesie, courtoisie] Terms describing the refined customs and behaviours that emerged in the European courts of the 11th and 12th centuries.Courtliness has its origins in the cult ...
Goops
Characters in pictures and text created by Gelett Burgess for his journal, The Lark, as boneless, quasi-human figures divided by their creator into two types: sulphites, independent thinkers, and ...
Faerie Queene
The greatest work of Spenser, of which the first three books were published 1590, and the second three 1596.The general scheme of the work is proposed in the author's introductory letter addressed to ...
courtly love
A highly conventionalized medieval tradition of love between a knight and a married noblewoman, first developed by the troubadours of Southern France and extensively employed in European literature ...
chivalry
The medieval knightly system with its religious, moral, and social code; knights, noblemen, and horsemen of that system collectively. Recorded from Middle English, the word comes, via Old French ...
