The Good Wife's Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris): A Medieval Household Book by Unknown, Gina L. Greco, Christine M. Rose

The Good Wife's Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris): A Medieval Household Book

Unknown, Gina L. Greco, Christine M. Rose

366 pages first pub 1393 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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 m...

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