In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England. Keith Thomas. The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2018. xvi + 356 pp. $45

Manners, which in earlier centuries were understood to embrace broader customs of behavior and even, during the high tide of Puritanism, moral and sexual comportment (a link largely broken, the present book notes, by the end of the eighteenth century except among the most fervent of evangelicals), a...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Renaissance quarterly 2019, Vol.72 (4), p.1503-1504
1. Verfasser:	Woolf, Daniel
Format:	Review
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Civilization Early modern period Etiquette Writers
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