{"product_id":"the-good-wifes-guide-le-menagier-de-paris-9780801474743","title":"The Good Wifes Guide Le Ménagier de Paris","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You said that you would not fail to improve yourself according to my teaching and correction, and you would do everything in your power to behave according to my wishes.\" [Prologue] \"I urge you to bewitch and bewitch again your future husband, and...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Paul Freedman * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Maid to Order: The Good Wife of Paris\u003cbr\u003e The Book: Backgrounds, Narrator, Genre, Sources\u003cbr\u003e Contexts: Conduct Books and Household Books\u003cbr\u003e Glossing the Tale of Griselda: The Model Wife and Marriage in Le Ménagier de Paris\u003cbr\u003e Translation ProtocolsThe Good Wife's Guide: The English Text of Le Ménagier de Paris\u003cbr\u003e Prologue\u003cbr\u003e Introductory Note to Articles 1.1-1.3\u003cbr\u003e Prayers and Orderly Dress (1.1)\u003cbr\u003e Behavior and Attire in Public (1.2)\u003cbr\u003e The Mass, Confession, the Vices and Virtues (1.3)\u003cbr\u003e On Chastity (1.4)\u003cbr\u003e Devotion to Your Husband (1.5)\u003cbr\u003e Obedience (including the Story of Griselda) (1.6)\u003cbr\u003e The Care of the Husband's Person (1.7)\u003cbr\u003e The Husband's Secrets (1.8)\u003cbr\u003e Introductory Note to Article 1.9\u003cbr\u003e Providing Your Husband with Good Counsel (including the Story of Melibee) (1.9)\u003cbr\u003e Introductory Note to Article 2.1\u003cbr\u003e Le Chemin de povreté et de richesse (2.1)\u003cbr\u003e Horticulture (2.2) 2\u003cbr\u003e Choosing and Caring for Servants and Horses (2.3)\u003cbr\u003e Introductory Note to Article 3.2\u003cbr\u003e Hawking Treatise (3.2)\u003cbr\u003e Menus (2.4)\u003cbr\u003e Recipes (2.5)Glossary of Culinary Terms\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865920713047,"sku":"9780801474743","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801474743.jpg?v=1722276204","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-good-wifes-guide-le-menagier-de-paris-9780801474743","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}