UK : East : Daniel of Beccles

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this is a real book about how to behave in a civilised manner during the middle ages...

i.e don't pick your nose

http://www.foxearth.org.uk/daniel_of_beccles_files/image006.gif
also there were rules on what pets/livestock you could let in the hall

http://www.foxearth.org.uk/daniel_of_beccles_files/image014.gif
Bestia brutalis non impresepiat aula, Nec porcus, nec murilegus videatur in illa,
Esse queunt in ea dextrarius et palefridus,
Addictique canes lepori, catulique molossi;
Aucupitres, nisi, falcones et mereelle.

Let not a brute beast be stabled in the hall, let not a pig
or a cat be seen in it; the animals which can be seen in it
are the charger and the palfrey, hounds entered to hare,
mastiff pups, hawks, sparrow-hawks, falcons and merlins.
(2206-10)


TBH this seems rather unfair (it even looks like the pig and cat think so!), plus keeping the horse indoors will surely leave the household with a somewhat messy hallway?



http://www.foxearth.org.uk/daniel_of_beccles.html

[General Lighting]

its also on Wikipedia this is some of the rest of it...

with such gems as

Do not attack your enemy while he is squatting to defecate.'
and

If two together are sitting on a privy, one should not get up while the other is emptying himself. (1266-79)”

also

"If you are overcome with erotic desire when you are young and your penis drives you to go to a prostitute, do not go to a common whore; empty your testicles quickly and depart quickly."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Civilized_Man

I think I'm gonna get a copy of this but it has to be with the original Latin text as well....