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Focusing on a broad range of texts from England France Germany and Italy conduct and courtesy books advice poems devotional literature trialrecords the contributors to Medieval Conduct draw attention to the diverseways in which readers of this literature could interpret such behavioralguides appropriating them to their own ends.Medieval Conduct expands the concept of conduct to include historicizedpractices and theorizes the connection between texts and their concrete socialuses what emerges is a nuanced interpretation of the role of gender and classinscribed in such texts. By bringing to light these subtleties andcomplexities the authors also reveal the ways in which the assumptions ofliterary history have shaped our reception of such texts in the past twocenturies. «
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