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Genre/Form: | Early works Early works to 1800 Ouvrages avant 1800 verk före 1800 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gina L Greco; Christine M Rose |
ISBN: | 9780801447389 0801447380 9780801474743 0801474744 1634956605 9781634956604 |
OCLC Number: | 228371757 |
Description: | xii, 366 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction. Maid to order : the good wife of Paris -- The book : backgrounds, narrator, genre, sources -- Contexts : conduct books and household books -- Glossing the tale of Griselda : the model wife and marriage in Le Menagier de Paris -- The good wife's guide : the English text of Le Menagier de Paris -- Prologue -- Introductory note to articles 1.1-1.3 -- Prayers and orderly dress (1.1) -- Behavior and attire in public (1.2) -- The mass, confession, the vices and virtues (1.3) -- On chastity (1.4) -- Devotion to your husband (1.5) -- Obedience (including the story of Griselda) (1.6) -- The care of the husband's person (1.7) -- The husband's secrets (1.8) -- Introductory note to article 1.9 -- Providing your husband with good counsel (including the story of Melibee) (1.9) -- Introductory note to article 2.1 -- Le chemin de povrete et de richesse (2.1) -- Horticulture (2.2) -- Choosing and caring for servants and horses (2.3) -- Introductory note to article 3.2 -- Hawking Treatise (3.2) -- Menus (2.4) -- Recipes (2.5). |
Other Titles: | Ménagier de Paris. |
Responsibility: | translated, with critical introduction, by Gina L. Greco and Christine M. Rose. |
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"A cookbook section contains over 350 recipes, and if many of them are taken from authorities such as the royal chef Taillevent, the author is quite opinionated about what works and what doesn't; he improves some recipes and offers others that seem to be his own. No man before or since has known more about running an affluent household, from keeping vermin out of linen to shopping in the market to caring for hunting hawks. The work has a peculiar tone, bossy yet tender, even elegiac. In their introduction the translators emphasize the husband's firm desire to subordinate his wife, but acknowledge that they found the book more appealing than they had originally expected." -- Paul Freedman * Times Literary Supplement * Read more...


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- Home economics -- France -- Early works to 1800.
- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
- Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800.
- Cooking, French -- Early works to 1800.
- Économie domestique -- France -- Ouvrages avant 1800.
- Morale pratique -- Ouvrages avant 1800.
- Paris (France) -- Mœurs et coutumes -- Ouvrages avant 1800.
- Conduct of life.
- Cooking, French.
- Home economics.
- Manners and customs.
- France.
- France -- Paris.
- Haushaltsführung
- Umgangsformen
- Frau
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- Hem- och konsumentkunskap -- historia -- Frankrike -- verk före 1800.
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- Traditioner -- historia -- Frankrike -- verk före 1800.
- Frankrike -- vardagsliv och traditioner -- historia -- Paris -- verk före 1800.
- Fransk matlagning -- historia.
- Frau.
- Umgangsformen.
- Haushaltsführung.
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