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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hartley, Dorothy. Lost country life. New York : Pantheon Books, c1979 (OCoLC)643648281 |
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| 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. |
Abstract:
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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