Fiona Whelan completed her DPhil in Medieval History at the University of Oxford in 2015, and has previously studied at Trinity College Dublin and University College London. She has published on manuscript dissemination and has contributed to the collection Transformations and Continuities in the Eleventh Century: The Archaeology of the Norman Conquest. She currently works for the University of Oxford and her research interests include the cultivation of norms of behaviour, food and diet in the medieval period, household administration, and the manuscript culture of early courtesy literature.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsManuscript SiglaIntroduction Chapter 1. The Background to Urbanus Magnus ContentIntroduction to the ManuscriptsCompositionAuthorshipChapter 2. Genre and Urbanus Magnus Scholarship on Urbanus MagnusThe Genre of Courtesy LiteratureThe Origins of Courtesy LiteratureOther SourcesChapter 3. The Manuscript EvidenceTwelfth-Century SatireAn Educational ToolReligious UseA Medical TextChapter 4. Introduction to ThemesChapter 5. The Medieval Household and Beyond Administering the HouseholdHouseholder, Home, and HospitalityChildren and WivesStaff and ServantsOutside the HouseholdSocial Mobility and Appropriate CourtesyChapter 6. The Medieval Body in Urbanus MagnusBodily Moderation and RestraintSpeech and LaughterBodily VicesThe Body and SexBodily EmissionsDisgustChapter 7. Medieval Dining and DietThe Archaeological EvidenceThe Medieval Meal Preparation and Consumption MannersContinuity and ChangeDiet and HealthChapter 8. New InterpretationsThe Impetus for and Precursors to Urbanus MagnusOriginsSocial HabitusThe Court of Henry II‘A Monument to Anxiety’UseThe Impact of Urbanus MagnusConclusion Appendix: Contenances de table poemsBibliographyIndex

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