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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
    Publication Date: 01/12/1998
    ISBN13: 9780226025841, 978-0226025841
    ISBN10: 0226025845
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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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