Possible question for Part 1:
Define the term conduct texts and explain their purpose in collections such as Ashmole 61. Were these kinds of texts actually valuable to the reader? Or did they merely outline ideal behavior?
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The first sentence here presents a very direct question about genre, one that could be directly answered and would require some analysis of the different kinds of conduct texts in Ashmole 61, with their different orientations (some quite courtly, some rather bourgeois or oriented toward the non-courtly). The next two questions are notoriously difficult to answer, about any texts, in the present and in the past, concerning the relationship between what one reads and actual behavior. There are ways, though, that this could be revised into a productive, sufficiently narrow question. For instance, instead of adding the “for instance” in sentence 1, the question could ask very specifically about how conduct texts work in this manuscript, in relation to its siblings in the manuscript (say, romances, or saint’s lives).