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... of the physiological continuity between gestation and lactation, yet their advice was adapted to the social realities of their patrons and patients by giving guidance about choosing a good wet nurse and controling her manner of life. Contrary to what is often claimed or supposed, the notion that the milk of amoral...

... culture in which habit is part of habitus, a traditional set of attitudes and custom- ary practices, including bodily and social deportment; fashion, on the other hand, is marked by change, by the impermanence of styles being rapidly displaced by new ones.3 A good example of dress as habit...

... in descent, customs, language and law” [diversae nationes populorum inter se discrepant genere, moribus, lingua, legibus].14 Of the four criteria listed here, only one is biological. Customs, language, and law are the outcome of socialization and hence...

... as the custom pre- vails. Galeholt ensured the love relationship between Lancelot and Guene- vere, but also set himself up as a rival to the queen for Lancelot’s company. And he seems bent on playing a similar role in Tristan’s life, lamenting, “Ce poise moi que vos ne poez venir avec moi en la Grant...

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... geographical boundaries rather than in relation to their own religious beliefs or social customs. Encounters with the New World forced them to come to terms with new peoples and new cultures. One result was that increased visual familiarity with other cultures’ fashions meant that no culture was exempt...

... with certain forms of social and politi- cal life.9 For both Plato and Aristotle, only virtuous individuals can reason correctly about political life. But while Aristotle presents a profoundly social account of reasoning and the virtues, Plato reserves true virtue — and true political judgment...

... inscribing their friends’ albums, students often quoted classical authors on friendship, juxtaposing these quotations next to mottoes describing the precariousness of Fortune, which they understood in relation to the dangers of war, social or religious conflict, or the fragility of life during...

... Western costume books and portrait books — in order to explore how those conventions joined with local traditions in the Foggie diverse. The convergence of these diverse strands generated this new kind of artifact, an urban encomium in which a cross-spectrum of social life is condensed...

..., as the charges against Richard included try- ing to govern by his voluntas, his will. Everyone’s life and goods were, so the indictment ran, “at his will . . . contrary to the laws and customs of England,” and worst of all, he claimed that “the laws were in his own mouth.”41 Given these charges...

... and made. One of the most striking features highlighted by the surviving documents is the number and diversity of individuals involved, who formed an extensive network that brought together customers, merchants, manufacturers, and artisans.1 Yet rather than explore the intricacies of this network...

..., Trench, Trübner, 1905), 150. 14 Hutton, Rise and Fall of Merry England , 35; Richard Britnell, “Town Life,” in A Social History of England, 1200–1500 , ed. Rosemary Horrox and W. Mark Ormrod (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 134–78, at 176. 15 Hutton, Rise and Fall of Merry...

... are presented sym- pathetically rather than satirically, especially as the Daunce moves down the social scale. The laborer describes his difficult but honest life: In wynde & reyn & gon forth at the plouh With spade & Picoys laboured for my prouh Dovyn & dikid & atte cart goon...

... But granted that public bathing remained common through much of Europe up to the Renaissance (despite anxieties about the lax morality that the custom encouraged), exer- cise halls did not usually figure in establishments, and the social rituals described in chapter 13 can hardly be presumed as constants...

... to eradicate a perceived evil — usually custom — after which time, new social relations can be implemented. Yet in these distant moments of economic change, there is a shared dream of a new reality that emerges from the ashes of another order destroyed. Spenser indulges in a vision of cultural...

... meaningful sense. Only in the past decade have cracks emerged in the consensus that such legislation was meant for anything beyond symbolic purposes, a view backed by a much older consensus that pre-Conquest law could do no more than “declare” what had always been custom, thus revealing little about...

... fundamental stages: (1) ways in which individual people and communities encounter the world; (2) the simultaneous relational, intersubjective process making sense of those encounters; and (3) the social and physical structures born from the repetition of these processes so as to produce knowledge of the “real...

... handicraftsmen” — just as important were the social dimensions of their identity. Speaking of a “more or less coherent artisan culture that endured for half a millennium,” Farr proposes that “we might profit from thinking of an artisan’s life (and his or her work) as being in important ways a product...

... an exponential curve like the one describing biological evolution,” he writes in his last book, Disap- pearing through the Skylight. “The direction is continuous.”20 Darwin not only remained for Hardison a life-long obsession, but in the end Darwin, too, “repressed” his biases.21 Ever the analyst...

... of foreign customs. By analyzing the antiquaries’ arguments, this article seeks to broaden the historiographical understanding of ancient constitutionalism and to show that the antiquaries made a significant contribution to early Stuart political thought. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013...