Lost Country Life Author:Dorothy Hartley How English country folk lived, worked, threshed, thatched, rolled fleece, milled corn, brewed mead -- and how they ploughed, reaped, spun wool, churned butter, kept bees, wove baskets, and carried on all the other tasks and trades of rural daily life. Hartley uses as her framework a 16th century calendar of advice for farmers and their families... more ». Weaving together quotation, anecdote, history, folklore, and fact, she chronicles country life from the 12th through the 18th century.« less