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03121aam a2200433 i 4500 001 BE0AB90CF11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180104010254 008 170308t20182018paua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017010471 020 $a 0812249607 020 $a 9780812249606 035 $a (OCoLC)979994411 040 $a PU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c PAU $d DLC $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCF $d BDX $d OCLCA $d MUU $d YDX $d OCLCO $d INU $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e------ 050 00 $a HQ1147 E85 B87 2018 082 04 $a 940.1 100 1 $a Burger, Glenn, $d 1954- $e author. 245 10 $a Conduct becoming : $b good wives and husbands in the later Middle Ages / $c Glenn D. Burger. 264 1 $a Philadelphia : $b University of Pennsylvania Press, $c [2018] 300 $a 262 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a The Middle Ages series 520 8 $a Conduct Becoming examines a new genre of late medieval writing that focuses on a wife's virtuous conduct and ability of such conduct to alter marital and social relations in the world. Considering a range of texts written for women-the journees chretiennes or daily guides for Christian living, secular counsel from husbands and fathers such as Le Livre du Chevalier de La Tour Landry and Le Menagier de Paris, and literary narratives such as the Griselda story-Glenn D. Burger argues that, over the course of the long fourteenth century, the "invention" of the good wife in discourses of sacramental marriage, private devotion, and personal conduct reconfigured how female embodiment was understood. While the period inherits a strongly antifeminist tradition that views the female body as naturally wayward and sensual, late medieval conduct texts for women outline models of feminine virtue that show the good wife as an identity with positive influence in the world. Because these manuals imagine how to be a good wife as necessarily entangled with how to be a good husband, they also move their readers to consider such gendered and sexed identities in relational terms and to embrace a model of self-restraint significantly different from that of clerical celibacy. Conduct literature addressed to the good wife thus reshapes how late medieval audiences thought about the process of becoming a good person more generally. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index. 650 0 $a Wives $z Europe $x History $x History $y To 1500. 650 0 $a Wives $x History $z Europe $x History $y To 1500. 650 0 $a Sex role $z Europe $x History $x Christianity $x History $y To 1500. 650 0 $a Women $x History $z Europe $x History $y To 1500. 650 0 $a Wives in literature $x History $y To 1500. 650 0 $a Conduct of life in literature $x History $y To 1500. 650 0 $a Marriage in literature $x History $y To 1500. 650 0 $a Virtue in literature $x History $y To 1500. 650 0 $a Literature, Medieval $x History and criticism. 830 0 $a Middle Ages series. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210406013734.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BE0AB90CF11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search