Author: Gervase Markham

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9780773511033

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.