Book description
Ann Baer has produced a sensitive, knowledgeable month-by-month account of the hardships suffered by Marion and Peter Carpenter, set from March through the following February of one year of their struggle for existence in Medieval England. . . . Ann Baer has given the world an immeasurable gift with the…
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Ever think you'd enjoy living in the medieval period? Think again! It's not just the lack of smart-phones and refrigerators—this book does a month-by-month fictional account of the life of a typical woman in medieval England. Mind blown repeatedly. I never felt so lucky as I did while reading this book. Thank god for washing machines. Toilets. Antibiotics. Buckets!
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