Lost country life. [Man in history; mediaeval world; work of 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 & windy, Barn filleth up finely; June: woolly sheep; July: No tempest, good July; August: Harvest; September: September blow soft Till fruit be in loft; October: October good blast, To blow hog mas; November: Leave latewardly rearing; December: O dirty December, For Christmas remember; commercial world; Trade; Travel; Markets & fairs; Commodities; Commonly used wild & cultivated plants; Plants & flowers commonly grown in late mediaeval period; Cultivation & use of plants; Tusser's hop-yard]
by Hartley, Dorothy
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- Fine
- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394510364
- ISBN 13
- 9780394510361
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Stockbridge, Georgia, United States
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New York : Pantheon Books, 1979, 1979. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st American edition, 1st printing ; ix, 374 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0394510364; 9780394510361 LCCN: 79-3320 ; LC: DA110; Dewey: 942 ; OCLC: 5674041 ; grey blue and beige cloth in pictorial color dustjacket ; 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. ; "how English country folk lived, worked, threshed, thatched, rolled fleece, milled corn, brewed mead, ploughed, reaped, spun wool, churned butter, kept bees, wove baskets and carried on all the other tasks of daily rural life" ; price-clipped dustjacket ; FINE/FINE.
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- Lost country life. [Man in history; mediaeval world; work of 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 & windy, Barn filleth up finely; June: woolly sheep; July: No tempest, good July; August: Harvest; September: September blow soft Till fruit be in loft; October: October good blast, To blow hog mas; November: Leave latewardly rearing; December: O dirty December, For Christmas remember; commercial world; Trade; Travel; Markets & fairs; Commodities; Commonly used wild & cultivated plants; Plants & flowers commonly grown in late mediaeval period; Cultivation & use of plants; Tusser's hop-yard]
- Author
- Hartley, Dorothy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394510364
- ISBN 13
- 9780394510361
- Publisher
- New York : Pantheon Books, 1979
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- animals bark barley Bartholomaeus Anglicus beasts bees better boiled bracken bread breeding calf carried cattle century cheese clay cloth colour common cooking corn cottage crop districts dried early earth East Anglia England farm feudal field fimble fire
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