A medieval home companion
Subtitle: housekeeping in the fourteenth century
By: translated and edited by Tania Bayard.
Contributors: Bayard, Tania.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Home economics -- France -- Early works to 1800; Home economics -- France -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources; France -- Social life and customs
Description: A fascinating window into the daily life of a medieval household, originally written as instructions for a young wife from her husband-with more then fifty medieval woodcuts and printed in two colors throughout.
Notes: Abridged translation of: Le ménagier de Paris.