The Good Wife's Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris): Le ménagier de Paris : a medieval household bookCornell University Press, 22.08.2012 - 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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Introduction Maid to Order The Good Wife of Paris | 1 |
Translation Protocols | 44 |
The Good Wifes Guide The English Text of Le Ménagier de Paris | 47 |
Prologue | 49 |
Introductory Note to Articles 11 13 | 53 |
Prayers and Orderly Dress 11 | 55 |
Behavior and Attire in Public 12 | 59 |
The Mass Confession the Vices and Virtues 13 | 60 |
Providing Your Husband with Good Counselincluding the Story of Melibee 19 | 149 |
Introductory Note to Article 21 | 177 |
Le Chemin de povreté et de richesse 21 | 181 |
Horticulture 22 | 209 |
Choosing and Caring for Servants and Horses 23 | 215 |
Introductory Note to Article 32 | 229 |
Hawking Treatise 32 | 233 |
Menus 24 | 253 |
On Chastity 14 | 86 |
Devotion to Your Husband 15 | 94 |
Obedience including the Story of Griselda 16 | 104 |
The Care of the Husbands Person 17 | 138 |
The Husbands Secrets 18 | 142 |
Introductory Note to Article 19 | 147 |
Recipes 25 | 271 |
Glossary of Culinary Terms | 341 |
347 | |
355 | |
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