Microsocial behaviour 500 years ago in western societies

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Braudel Longue duree Most cultural/social history of peasantries

Basically: very different.

Class was expressed through legalised social status issues including dress, habit, language, gesture, stance. This was much more rigidly enforced because the classes mingled to a much greater extent than today (when have you met someone who owns $5bn of capital?).

Food customs differed remarkably, though 1512 was a period of food custom change (as always, but) to a greater extent than previously.

Sumptuary laws regulated a hell of a lot of this, and are widely written up.

Herman Pleij, Dreaming of Cockaigne: Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life (2001) Columbia University Press might be a good start given that the fantasy of corporeal satisfaction embodies a lot of these issues. (It depends on where, when, and who a hell of a lot by the way.)

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