Caxton's Book of Curtesye

Edited by F.J. Furnivall

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First Published: 01 Jan 1868
13 Digit ISBN: 9780859919500
Pages: 168
Size: 21.6 x 13.8
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: Early English Text Society
Series: Early English Text Society Extra Series
Subject: Medieval Literature
BIC Class: DSBB

Details updated on 21 May 2013

An edition of Caxton's delightful Book of Curtesye, originally "printed at Westminster about 1477-8 A.D." As well as the usual instructions on good manners and behaviour [Lose not your gyrdel / sittyng at your mete - Don't undo your girdle at the table], this guide includes a charming and clearly heartfelt section advising which poets should be read, with Chaucer, Lydgate, Gower and Occleve being judged the finest and most important.