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Gender as Conduct in the Courtesy Guides for Aristocratic Boys and Girls of Amanieu de Sescas

Gender as Conduct in the Courtesy Guides for Aristocratic Boys and Girls of Amanieu de Sescas Chapter 6 Gender as Conduct in the Courtesy Guides for Aristocratic Boys and Girls of Amanieu de Sescás DePaul University In the introduction to their collection of essays on medieval conduct literature, Kathleen Ashley and Robert Clark propose the construction of gender roles, distinctions of class, and the relationship of theory to practice as three major questions posed by these texts.1 For the analysis of gender roles, among the most obviously relevant works are those paired texts--sometimes by the same author but often simply circulated together--that offer separate advice for men and for women. Most of these paired works, in all languages, date from the later Middle Ages. In an essay from Ashley and Clark's volume, Anna Dronzek finds that most late medieval English conduct texts offer very different advice for each sex, thanks to disparate expectations for their future social roles (boys will go out into the world, girls will stay at home) and even because of diverse assumptions about their innate capacities for learning (males are more rational than females). These expectations and assumptions evidently engage distinctions in class, as well. Their readership was probably wealthy urbanites seeking advancement to a higher social sphere; aristocratic children, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Essays in Medieval Studies West Virginia University Press

Gender as Conduct in the Courtesy Guides for Aristocratic Boys and Girls of Amanieu de Sescas

Johnston, Mark
Essays in Medieval Studies , Volume 20 (1) – Mar 17, 2003
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Chapter 6 Gender as Conduct in the Courtesy Guides for Aristocratic Boys and Girls of Amanieu de Sescás DePaul University In the introduction to their collection of essays on medieval conduct literature, Kathleen Ashley and Robert Clark propose the construction of gender roles, distinctions of class, and the relationship of theory to practice as three major questions posed by these texts.1 For the analysis of gender roles, among the most obviously relevant works are those paired texts--sometimes by the same author but often simply circulated together--that offer separate advice for men and for women. Most of these paired works, in all languages, date from the later Middle Ages. In an essay from Ashley and Clark's volume, Anna Dronzek finds that most late medieval English conduct texts offer very different advice for each sex, thanks to disparate expectations for their future social roles (boys will go out into the world, girls will stay at home) and even because of diverse assumptions about their innate capacities for learning (males are more rational than females). These expectations and assumptions evidently engage distinctions in class, as well. Their readership was probably wealthy urbanites seeking advancement to a higher social sphere; aristocratic children,

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Published: Mar 17, 2003

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