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A Medieval Home Companion: Housekeeping in the Fourteenth Century
A Medieval Home Companion Housekeeping in the Fourteenth Century
Author: Tanya Bayard (Editor)
Art historian Bayard has translated and edited the household advice of a Parisian citizen of the late 14th century to his young wife, A Medieval Home Companion, and added 40 medieval woodcuts. Although some of the more archaic and, for modern readers, offensive elements are omitted, enough remains to provide an excellent notion of how t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060921828
ISBN-10: 006092182X
Publication Date: 9/1992
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
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Very good introduction to the culture of the Mediaeval Woman. While the serious, long-time mediaevalist won't find anything new here, it would be a good book for a sophomore level college course; and of course, anyone who takes an arm chair fancy to mediaeval history.
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