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A Medieval Home Companion

by · 1991 · 144 pages

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A window into the daily life of a medieval household, originally written as instructions for a young wife from her husband—with more than fifty medieval woodcuts and printed in two colors throughout.

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Subject
historycooking
Genre
historical fictionmedieval
Themes
food
Setting
medievalmiddle ages
Audience
adult
Length
short · 144 pages

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