In Pursuit Of Civility by Keith Thomas
Manners and Civilisation in Early Modern England
A concise cultural history examining how English notions of politeness and civility developed from the early modern period onward, showing how changing expectations about manners—shaped by etiquette manuals, sermons, domestic life, print culture, and urbanization—regulated personal conduct and reflected broader shifts in class, religion, and social order; it argues that practices of self-control, shame, and empathy became social virtues that helped produce modern civilized behaviour.
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- 1999
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