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Arditi's study offers a history of mores from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Drawing on the ideas of Elias, Foucault and Bourdieu, as well as through analysing courtesy manuals and etiquette books of the times, he examines the relationship between power and social practices and traces how power changes over the centuries.

A Genealogy of Manners Transformations of Social

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 1 December 1998
      ISBN-13 9780226025841
      978-0226025841
      ISBN-10 0226025845
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      Social and cultural history Home & Garden Parties, etiquette and entertaining Sociology and anthropology

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      Book Synopsis
      Arditi's study offers a history of mores from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Drawing on the ideas of Elias, Foucault and Bourdieu, as well as through analysing courtesy manuals and etiquette books of the times, he examines the relationship between power and social practices and traces how power changes over the centuries.

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