If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
- ISBN-10
- 0802779956
- ISBN-13
- 9780802779953
- Series
- If Walls Could Talk
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 351
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-02-28
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Author
- Lucy Worsley
Description
An architectural and cultural history of home life in England covers a wide range of topics from cooking and oral hygiene to sex and marriage, describing such subjects as why medieval people slept sitting up and why people feared fruit for centuries. By the author of The Courtiers. 25,000 first printing.
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