The Domostroi: Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible
by Pouncy, Carolyn Johnston
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0801496896
- ISBN 13
- 9780801496899
- Seller
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About This Item
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 266 pages. ""The Domostroi, which literally means household order, is a 16th century Russian guide to life for noblemen, an exhaustive inventory of homilies, rules and recipes ranging from how to instillobedience in a wife to instructions for making meade and storing cabbage.""
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- Bookseller
- Pistil Books Online (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140458
- Title
- The Domostroi: Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible
- Author
- Pouncy, Carolyn Johnston
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0801496896
- ISBN 13
- 9780801496899
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Place of Publication
- Ithaca
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- Russian History, Domostroi, Household, Homilies, rules, Recipes, instruction Book, social History, household Management,
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