The Great Household in Late Medieval England

254pp, colour and black and white illustrations throughout. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine (cloth a little rounded at spine ends). Top edge dust marked. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (lightly bumped and rubbed at edges, small nick at base of spine). A portrait of aristocratic and gentry life in medieval England, looking at family life, the position of servants, the uses of space within the household, how meals were prepared and consumed both for daily sustenance and for special occasions and celebrations, clothing, travel arrangements etc.