Politeness in and across Historical Europe

• Introduction: Politeness in and across Historical Europe
  Dániel Z. Kádár, Gudrun Held & Annick Paternoster | pp. 1–15
Articles
• Cicero’s De Officiis, politeness and modern conduct manuals
  Jon Hall | pp. 16–31
• Facetus and the birth of “European” politeness
  Luis Unceta Gómez | pp. 32–48
• A culture of “pleasing”? Conceptual observations on the development of European “politeness” behaviour between aesthetics and ethics
  Gudrun Held | pp. 49–67
• Diplomatic letters from the Republic of Ragusa in the fifteenth century: (Im)politeness strategies in diplomatic epistolary discourse
  Ana Lalić | pp. 68–85
• German and Romance civility in contact: Retracing Early Modern European dynamics of polite address through historical foreign language manuals
  Linda Gennies | pp. 86–104
• A European model of polite conversation? Della Casa, Gioia and Knigge
  Giovanna Alfonzetti | pp. 105–123
• Ritual and modern “politeness” in the Romanian Principalities during the Phanariot period
  Mihaela-Viorica Constantinescu | pp. 124–142
• Historical language use in Europe from a contrastive pragmatic perspective: An exploratory case study of letter closings
  Juliane House, Dániel Z. Kádár, Fengguang Liu & Wenrui Shi | pp. 143–159
• The codification of nineteenth-century etiquette: On politeness, morality, rituals and discernment
  Annick Paternoster | pp. 160–178
• The informalisation of address practice in Swedish in a historical perspective
  Maria Fremer | pp. 179–197
• Historical changes in politeness norms: Are Finnish and French conceptions of politeness moving closer to each other?
  Johanna Isosävi | pp. 198–216

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