Conduct Book

Conduct books are a genre of books that attempt to educate the reader on social norms. As a genre, they began in the mid-to-late Middle Ages, although antecedents such as The Maxims of Ptahhotep (ca. 2350 BC) are among the earliest surviving works. Conduct books remained popular through the 18th century, although they gradually declined with the advent of the novel.

Famous quotes containing the words conduct and/or book:

    “Like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.”
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    “A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)