num_pages: 374
description: How English country folk lived, worked, threshed, thatched, rolled fleece, milled corn, brewed mead, and carried on all the other tasks and trades of daily rural life.This beautiful and heartfelt encyclopedia of rural life in the middle ages gets its special charm because the author, as a little girl, knew shepherds and laborers who lived in a way hardly changed through the centuries. She shares that land, now lost forever, where man was the measure of all things.Using as a framework a 16th-century calendar of advice for farmers, she takes us month by month through the country-dweller's year, and opens up the customs and traditions of a vanished rural life.
language: English
title: Lost Country Life
titlecomplete: Lost Country Life
genres: Historical, Nonfiction, History, Research, Reference, Medieval, Nature
ratings_count: 85
publisher: Pantheon Books