Philip Hensher

Manners maketh the Englishman

Keith Thomas describes how English notions of civility and consideration turned into a mission to civilise the world

  • In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England

    Keith Thomas

    Yale, pp. 457

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