The Civilizing Process The History of Manners

And there's a book called The History of Manners written in 1939 by Norbert Elias that said that, you know, medieval era through the 19th century, there was a big change in that.

And one of the most interesting books I've read is The History of Manners by Norbert Elias.

And it's a history of manners in the Western world from the middle ages until the present. And the fascinating thing is in the middle ages, if you wanted to cook something, you would cut up the animal carcass in front of your friends.

In the middle ages, it was completely normal for friends and family to have sex in front of each other.

Knights would write poetry about how much they loved the act of killing.

So I race up to the Christmas tree this one morning in my early mid teens and I pull the wrapping paper off and the book is, I'm not kidding, mismanners and my mother had put a bookmark in the section on how to write thank you notes.

I race up to the Christmas tree this one morning in my early mid teens and I pull the wrapping paper off and the book is, I'm not kidding, mismanners and my mother had put a bookmark in the section on how to write thank you notes.