Thinking about belching? Remember to look up at the ceiling. Or at least that’s what Daniel of Beccles, in his text Book of the Civilized Man, counseled men to do in the high Middle Ages when they got that queasy feeling. Alexandra Hudson eloquently discusses social mores like this one in her book The Soul of Civility, which is worth reading just for her engrossing survey of such entertaining and idiosyncratic recommendations offered by dusty manuals on manners.
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