The Good Wife's Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris): A Medieval Household BookCornell University Press, 15.09.2012 - 384 Seiten 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 woman of her station in society, in the almost certain event of her widowhood and subsequent remarriage. The work also provides a rich assembly of practical materials for the wife's use and for her household, including treatises on gardening and shopping, tips on choosing servants, directions on the medical care of horses and the training of hawks, plus menus for elaborate feasts, and more than 380 recipes. The Good Wife's Guide is the first complete modern English translation of this important medieval text also known as Le Ménagier de Paris (the Parisian household book), a work long recognized for its unique insights into the domestic life of the bourgeoisie during the later Middle Ages. The Good Wife's Guide, expertly rendered into modern English by Gina L. Greco and Christine M. Rose, is accompanied by an informative critical introduction setting the work in its proper medieval context as a conduct manual. This edition presents the book in its entirety, as it must have existed for its earliest readers. The Guide is now a treasure for the classroom, appealing to anyone studying medieval literature or history or considering the complex lives of medieval women. It illuminates the milieu and composition process of medieval authors and will in turn fascinate cooking or horticulture enthusiasts. The work illustrates how a (perhaps fictional) Parisian householder of the late fourteenth century might well have trained his wife so that her behavior could reflect honorably on him and enhance his reputation. |
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... Tale of Griselda : The Model Wife and Marriage in Le Ménagier de Paris 28 Translation Protocols 44 The Good Wife's Guide : The English Text of Le Ménagier de Paris 47 Prologue 49 Introductory Note to Articles 1.1-1.3 53 Prayers and ...
... tale of Griselda ( 1.6 ) ; the tale of Prudence and Melibee from Renard de Louens's version of Albertanus of Brescia's story ( 1.9 ) ; and the poem by Jacques Bruyant ( c . 1324 ) , Le Chemin de povreté et de richesse ( The Way of ...
... tale of Melibee ) . As the first English translation , it is an unarguably fine beginning . In some instances Power has made judicious translation decisions , which we have at times adopted . A small selection of Le Ménagier was ...
... tale of Griselda acts as the centerpiece of the moral treatise . As the paradigmatic wife of the whole book , the ultra - obedient Griselda is recalled in each anecdote about wifely behavior and echoed in the later sections on domestic ...
... Tales , Studied on the Basis of All Known Manuscripts , 8 vols . ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1940 ) , for the tables of ... tale of Griselda . figure in the reign of Charles VI , in 1389 22 Gina L. Greco and Christine M. Rose.
Inhalt
Translation Protocols | 44 |
Introductory Note to Articles 1 11 3 | 53 |
Behavior and Attire in Public 1 2 | 59 |
On Chastity 1 4 | 86 |
Devotion to Your Husband 1 5 | 94 |
Obedience including the Story of Griselda 1 6 | 104 |
The Care of the Husbands Person 1 7 | 138 |
Introductory Note to Article 1 9 | 147 |
Horticulture 2 2 | 209 |
Choosing and Caring for Servants and Horses 2 3 | 215 |
Introductory Note to Article 3 2 | 229 |
Menus 2 4 | 253 |
Recipes 2 5 | 271 |
Glossary of Culinary Terms | 341 |
Index | 355 |
Introductory Note to Article 2 1 | 177 |
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