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As prosperity grew in 12th century England there was a reenergized focus on propriety and manners to befit the changing times. This was of course a time of cultural resurgence. So, along with the exaggeration of overbearing pious rules of ones behaviour and the expansion of 'household serving manuals', there also appeared to be a series of Anglo-Latin 'courtesy poems' which gave advice to young men on appropriate aristocratic and Christian behaviour so as to avoid being seen as improper.
One of these 'books of manners' was called 'Urbanus Magnus'. Its main intention was to advise men and boys on how to improve their social status in a shifting nation. The poems covered such subjects as hierarchy, table manners and sex, with a dizzying array of jumps between issues.
I am particularly taken but fond with his last suggestion:
• Should one desire to belch, remember first to gaze up at the ceiling. (Thor, I'm looking at you!)
• If you need to clear your nose, do not show others what appears in your hand. (Common sense prevails here.)
• Abstain from mounting your horse in the hall.
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• It is unseemly to fall upon your host while he is voiding his bowels. (What?! How did this-)
• Finally, if while dining in the company of your liege and his wife expresses her desire for carnal knowledge, the best thing to do is to pretend to be ill.
