The Babees' Book

About this eBook

Editor

Rickert, Edith, 1871-1938

Title

The Babees' Book: Medieval Manners for the Young: Done into Modern English

Credits

Produced by Turgut Dincer, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

TX: Technology: Home economics

Subject

Education -- England

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 58985

Release Date

February 28, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE BABEES’ BOOK:
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
4. 4.INTRODUCTION
5. 5.THE BABEES’ BOOK OR A LITTLE REPORT OF HOW YOUNG PEOPLE SHOULD BEHAVE
6. 6.THE A B C OF ARISTOTLE
7. 7.URBANITATIS [36]
8. 8.THE LITTLE CHILDREN’S LITTLE BOOK
9. 9.THE YOUNG CHILDREN’S BOOK
10. 10.STANS PUER AD MENSAM [71]
11. 11.HOW THE GOOD WIFE TAUGHT HER DAUGHTER
12. 12.HOW THE WISE MAN TAUGHT HIS SON
13. 13.JOHN RUSSELL’S BOOK OF NURTURE — The Duties of a Panter or Butler — The Buttery — Simple Conditions — [ Office of a Carver ] — Office of a Sewer — The Office of a Chamberlain — “ The Wardrobe — “ A Bath or Stew so-called — “ The Making of a Medicinable Bath — “ The Office of Usher and Marshal
14. 14.THE BOOK OF COURTESY — Here beginneth the First Book of Courtesy — The Second Book — The Third Book — De Officiariis in Curiis Dominorum [214] — De Janitore [218] — De Marescallo Aule [222] — Per quantum Tempus Armigeri habebunt Liberatam et Ignis Ardebit in Aula [225] — De Pincernario, Panetario, et Cocis sibi Servientibus [228] — De Officio Pincernarii [232] — De Hostiario et suis Servientibus [236] — De Officio Garcionum [238] — De Seneschallo [258] — De Contrarotulatore [260] — De Supervisore [264] — De Clerico Coquine [265] — De Cancellario [267] — De Thesaurizario [268] — De Receptore Firmarum [271] — De Avenario [274] — De Pistore [277] — De Venatore et suis Canibus [280] — De Aquario [284] — De Panetario [288] — De Cultellis Domini [290] — De Elemosinario [297] — De Ferculario [299] — De Candelario [308]
15. 15.SYMON’S LESSON OF WISDOM FOR ALL MANNER CHILDREN
16. 16.HUGH RHODES’S BOOK OF NURTURE AND SCHOOL OF GOOD MANNERS
17. 17.FRANCIS SEAGER’S SCHOOL OF VIRTUE — The Author’s Name Inverted — Face aut Tace — The Morning Prayer — How to Order Thyself when Thou Risest and in Apparelling thy Body — How to Behave Thyself in going by the Street and in the School — How to Behave Thyself in Serving the Table — How to Order Thyself Sitting at the Table — How to Order Thyself in the Church — A Prayer to be Said when Thou Goest to Bed
18. 18.THE SCHOOL OF VIRTUE, THE SECOND PART, OR THE YOUNG SCHOLAR’S PARADISE — A Digression for Children how they ought to be Instructed — How Thou Oughtest to Prepare Thyself, when Thou Risest in the Morning — The Charge of Children in their Carriage — The Charge of Children in Going from School and Coming — Laying the Cloth, and Making Ready the Table — Demeanour in Serving at the Table — Not to Walk in the Church — Necessary Rules to be Observed for the Guiding of Children in their Apparel and Otherwise — How to Order a Child in his Diet for Drink — To Moderate the Appetite of a Child from Sauciness and being Liquorish — A Prayer to be Said by Children after they have Studied, at their Going to Bed
19. 19.NOTES — THE BABEES’ BOOK — THE A B C OF ARISTOTLE — URBANITATIS — THE LITTLE CHILDREN’S LITTLE BOOK — THE YOUNG CHILDREN’S BOOK — STANS PUER AD MENSAM — HOW THE GOOD WIFE TAUGHT HER DAUGHTER — HOW THE WISE MAN TAUGHT HIS SON — JOHN RUSSELL’S BOOK OF NURTURE — THE BOOK OF COURTESY — SYMON’S LESSON OF WISDOM FOR ALL MANNER CHILDREN — HUGH RHODES’S BOOK OF NURTURE — FRANCIS SEAGER’S SCHOOL OF VIRTUE — RICHARD WESTE’S SCHOOL OF VIRTUE
20. 20.FOOTNOTES

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