Author: Gervase Markham
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773511033
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
In 1615 Englishman Gervase Markham published a handbook for housewives that contains "all the virtuous knowledges and actions both of the mind and body, which ought to be in any complete housewife". Markham instructs and advises on everything from the plague to baldness and bad breath. Woodcut illustrations add a richness to this look at life during the Renaissance.