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9%OFFRoger Hargreaves - The Good Wife´s Guide (Le Menagier de Paris): A Medieval Household Book - 9780801474743 - V9780801474743
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The Good Wife´s Guide (Le Menagier de Paris): A Medieval Household Book

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Description for The Good Wife´s Guide (Le Menagier de Paris): A Medieval Household Book Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 2. BIC Classification: 3H; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 538.
In the closing years of the fourteenth century, an anonymous French writer compiled a book addressed to a fifteen-year-old bride, narrated in the voice of her husband, a wealthy, aging Parisian. The book was designed to teach this young wife the moral attributes, duties, and conduct befitting a woman of her station in society, in the almost certain event of her widowhood and subsequent remarriage. The work also provides a rich assembly of practical materials for the wife's use and for her household, including treatises on gardening and shopping, tips on choosing servants, directions on the medical care of horses ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
538g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801474743
SKU
V9780801474743
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Reviews for The Good Wife´s Guide (Le Menagier de Paris): A Medieval Household Book
In a new, highly readable, and lively translation of an important medieval document, Gina L. Greco and Christine M. Rose have done a wonderful job of maintaining the integrity of the original text while rendering it into colloquial English. As a result, The Good Wife's Guide is eminently teachable. It is a cultural artifact in its own right, one that ... Read more

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