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Lost country life

Author: Dorothy Hartley
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, ©1979.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
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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.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Hartley, Dorothy.
Lost country life.
New York : Pantheon Books, c1979
(OCoLC)643648281
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dorothy Hartley
ISBN: 0394510364 : 9780394510361
OCLC Number: 5674041
Notes: Includes index.
Description: ix, 374 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
Background --
The man in history --
The mediaeval world --
The work of the year --
January: New year --
February: "Rest not for taking thy ease" --
March: "March dust to be sold, Worth ransom of gold" --
April: "Sweet April showers" --
May: "Cold May and windy, Barn filleth up finely" --
June: the woolly sheep --
July: "No tempest, good July" --
August: Harvest --
September: "September blow soft Till fruit be in loft" --
October: "October good blast, To blow the hog mast" --
November: "Leave latewardly rearing" --
December: "O dirty December, For Christmas remember" --
The commercial world --
Trade --
Travel --
Markets and fairs --
Commodities --
Appendixes --
Commonly used wild and cultivated plants --
Plants and flowers commonly grown in the late mediaeval period --
Observations on the cultivation and use of plants --
Tusser's hop-yard --
Glossary.
Responsibility: Dorothy Hartley.

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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.

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