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Index
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Addison, Joseph
aesthetics: and morality
Alberti, Leandro
Alberti, Leon Battista
Alexander the Great
Alfonsi, Petrus: Disciplina clericalis
Alfred the Great, King of West Saxons
Allen, Ralph
Allestree, Richard: The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety; The Ladies Calling; The Whole Duty of Man
America: Chesterfield’s letters in; see also United States of America
American Beauty (film)
American Civil War (1861–5)
Amhurst, Nicholas: Terrae-filius
Amis, Martin: Lionel Asbo
Angelo, Domenico
Anne of Cleves, Queen of Henry VIII
Aquinas, St Thomas
Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm von: A Picture of England
arguments
Ariès, Philippe
aristocracy
Aristotle
Aristotle’s Masterpiece (sex manual)
ASBOs (Anti-social Behaviour Orders)
Ascham, Roger; Toxophilus
Aslet, Clive: Anyone for England?
Astell, Mary: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
Athelstan, King of the English
Athenian Mercury (magazine)
Aubrey, John
Austen, Cassandra
Austen, Jane; Emma; Persuasion; Sanditon
Austria: formal manners
Ayscough, George Edward
Babbage, Charles
Babees Book, The
Baldrige, Letitia: New Manners for New Times
Baldwin, Stanley, 1st Earl
Baltzell, E. Digby
Bank of England: established (1694)
Banse, Ewald
Barnes, Julian: England, England
Barthes, Roland
Bath
bathing clothes
baths and toilets
Beckford, Peter
Bede, Venerable: Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Bedlam
Beeton, Isabella: The Book of Household Management
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bell, Florence: The Minor Moralist
Bergson, Henri
Beyfus, Drusilla: Modern Manners
Binder, Pearl: The English Inside Out
Blackburn Standard and Weekly Express
Blair, Tony
Blake, William
bodily functions
body language see gesture
bonhomie
bore (word)
Borg, Björn
Boswell, James
Bourdain, Anthony
Bourdieu, Pierre
Bowes, George Seaton: Conversation: Why Don’t We Do More Good By It?
; bowing
Boyer, Abel: The History of the London Clubs
Brathwait, Richard: The English Gentleman; The English Gentlewoman
breeding (good)
Breton, Nicholas
Bristol
British: defined
Brooks, David
brothels
Brother (film)
Brown, John: An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times
Brunelleschi, Filippo
Bryant, Sir Arthur
Bryson, Bill; At Home
Bunce, Oliver Bell: Don’t: A Manual of Mistakes and Improprieties
Burckhardt, Jacob: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Burghley, William Cecil, Baron
Burke, Edmund; Reflections on the Revolution in France
Burke, Peter
Burney, Fanny (Madame d’Arblay); Evelina
Burney, Hetty
Bush, George W.
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron
Cagadoc, Luc
Callisthenes
Cameron, David
Cammaerts, Emile
car ownership
Carlyle, Thomas; Sartor Resartus
Carroll, Lewis
Carter, Stephen L.
carving (meats)
Castiglione, Baldassare; Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Book of the Courtier)
Catholicism: and English Reformation; hostility to
Cawdrey, Robert: A Table Alphabetical
Caxton, William
Cecil, Robert (later 1st Earl of Salisbury)
ceremony and ritual
Chancellor, Richard
Charlemagne, Emperor
Charles II, King
Charlotte, Queen of George III
charm: and irritation
Charm Offensive (Young Foundation report)
Chaucer, Geoffrey; The Canterbury Tales
Cheadle, Eliza
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of: appearance and manner; counsels against laughter; esteem for French; on etiquette and manners; and letter-writing; letters to son; opposition to
children: upbringing; Victorian
chimpanzees: behaviour
China: eating habits; and health benefits of sex; influence in England; manners
chivalry
chopsticks
Christianity: and civility; see also religion
Church, the: importance in medieval period
Cicero
Cincinnati
city life
civility
civilization: and growth of inhibition
class (social): as system; Victorian changes
cleanliness (personal)
clubs (social); gentlemen’s
Cockayne, Emily
Cockeram, Henry
coffee
coffee houses
Collier, Jane: An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting
colour: in dress
common sense
Confucius
contraception
Contrast, The: or an Antidote to … the Letters of the Late Earl of Chesterfield
conversation
Cooper, Jilly: Class
corporate values
Coryat, Thomas
cotton: for garments
court (royal): ceremonies and rituals; as heart of social network
courtesy (word)
Courtin, Antoine de: Nouveau traité de la civilité qui se pratique en France parmi les honnêtes gens
courtly love
Cowley, Hannah: The Belle’s Stratagem (play)
crime and criminality; decline
Cromley, Elizabeth Collins
Crusades
Cullen, Edward
Curb Your Enthusiasm (US TV series)
Curtin, Michael
curtsies
Daily Express
Daily Mail
Daily Telegraph: on word ‘sorry’
dance and dancing: Chesterfield on; improving effects; modern changes in
dandyism
Daniel of Beccles: Urbanus Magnus (or Liber Urbani; poem)
Davetian, Benet
David I, King of Scotland
David, Larry
Davis, Miles
Debrett’s A–Z of Modern Manners
Debrett’s Etiquette and Modern Manners
de Courcy, Anne
Defoe, Daniel; ‘The True-Born Englishman’
della Casa, Giovanni: Galateo
DeMott, Benjamin
Dickens, Charles: American Notes
Digby, Kenelm Henry: The Broad Stone of Honour
DiMaggio, Joe
Disney, Walt
Donaldson, Walter: Synopsis Oeconomica
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Notes from Underground
dress: codes; colour; cotton; Elizabethan; and propriety
Druckerman, Pamela: French Children Don’t Throw Food
drunkenness
duels and duelling
Dunton, John: The Night-walker
eating and drinking; and sex; see also table manners
Edge (online magazine)
Edison, Thomas
education
Edward I, King
Edward II, King
Edward the Elder, King of the Angles and Saxons
Edwards, Anne and Drusilla Beyfus: Lady Behave: A Guide to Modern Manners
effeminacy
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of Henry II
Eleanor of Provence, Queen of Henry III
Elias, Norbert: Über den Prozess der Zivilisation (The Civilizing Process)
Eliot, T. S.
Elizabeth I, Queen
Elizabethan period
Ellis, Bret Easton: American Psycho
Ellis, Sarah Stickney: The Wives of England
Elyot, Sir Thomas; The Boke Named the Governour; The Castle of Health
email see internet
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: English Traits
emotion: and bodily expression
empiricism
Engels, Friedrich
English (and England): character and national identity; collecting and hobbies; conversation and use of language; customs and practices; defined; eccentricity; exceptionalism; experience of abroad; foreign visitors’ views of; geography and climate; historical continuity; images; immigrants; manners; monarchs; politeness and rudeness; reasonableness; and social unease; violence
equality (social)
Erasmus, Desiderius; De Civilitate Morum Puerilium
Erskine, Thomas
etiquette: as art; Chesterfield on; guides to; and internet; as word
euphemism and verbal avoidance
Evelyn, John
Facetus (or Urbanus; Latin poem)
fair, fairness (words)
Faret, Nicolas
farewells
farting
fashion; see also dress
feasts: in medieval England
Fein, Ellen and Sherrie Schneider: The Rules
feminism
Fey, Tina: Bossypants
Field of the Cloth of Gold, The
Fielding, Henry; ‘An Essay on Conversation’; Tom Jones
Fine Gentleman’s Etiquette, The (1776)
Fiston, William: The School of Good Manners
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
flagellation
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
Florio, John
Flügel, J. C.: The Psychology of Clothes
food and diet; see also eating and drinking
football (Association)
Fordyce, James: Sermons to Young Women
Foreman, Richard
forks (cutlery)
Forster, E. M.: A Room with a View
Foucault, Michel
Fox, Charles James
Fox, Kate
France (and French): Burke on; children’s upbringing; conduct and behaviour; English hostility to; influence on fashion; Jo
hnson disparages; word borrowings from
Francis I, King of France
Franklin, Benjamin
Franzen, Jonathan
French Revolution
Freud, Sigmund; Civilization and its Discontents (Das Unbehagen in der Kultur)
Friedan, Betty
Frieman, Richie (Modern Manners Guy)
funerals and bereavement
furniture: upholstered
Garway, Thomas
gentleman (word)
Gentleman’s Magazine: on etiquette
George I, King
George III, King
Germany: formal manners
gesticulation
gesture
Ghazali, Abu Hamed Mohammed ibn Mohammed al-
Gladstone, William Ewart
Glaeser, Edward
Glorious Revolution (1688)
Godwin, William
Goffman, Erving
Goldblatt, David: The Ball Is Round
Gombaud, Antoine
Goozey, Alexander
Gordon Riots (1780)
Gorer, Geoffrey
Gough, Richard: The History of Myddle
Graham, Laurie
Grand Tour
Grand’Comb, Félix de (Félix Boillot)
gratitude
Great Fire of London (1666)
greetings
Gregory the Great, Pope
Grosseteste, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln
Guardian (newspaper)
Guazzo, Stefano: La Civil Conversazione
habits
Habits of Good Society, The (1859)
Hale, Sir Matthew: Advice to his Grandchildren
Hale, Sarah Josepha: Manners; or, Happy Homes and Good Society All the Year Round
Halifax, George Savile, 1st Marquess of
handkerchiefs
handshakes
Hanway, Jonas
Harland, Marion
Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies
Hart, Sir Robert
Hazlitt, William; ‘On The Conduct of Life’
hedges
hello: as greeting
Helzer, Erik
Henry I, King
Henry VIII, King
Herodotus
Herschel, Caroline
Herschel, William
Hessler, Peter: Country Driving
Hewlett-Packard (company)
Himmelfarb, Gertrude
Hitchens, Christopher
Hitchens, Peter
Hobbes, Thomas; Leviathan
Hoby, Sir Thomas
Hodgkinson, Tom
Homer
homes: numbers and ownership; privacy and space
homosexuality
honour: and chivalry
Hume, David
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
impolite (word)
incivility
individuality
Institucion of a Gentleman (1555)
internet
intuition
Irving, Sir Henry