In the fourteenth century, literate Frenchwomen of the emerging urban-based bourgeois might learn what behavior was appropriate for them by reading the Menagier de Paris' instructions to his young wife … When you go to town or to church go suitably accompanied by honourable women according to your estate, and flee suspicious company

QUESTION: Did bourgeois women's conduct literature differ meaningfully from aristocratic or courtly counterparts of the same era?

XREF: Connects to conduct books and courtesy literature tradition that persists through the early modern period, like Castiglione's Courtier.

Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order a…, loc. 649