The Social Background

This "book" explores the remarkable variousness of a society profoundly different from our own; not only was it more structured, but the demands of a world before mass production and automation meant that people performed a multiplicity of tasks now performed by machines.

Chapters in this section:

• Country life
• Huswifery
• Husbandry
• The family
• City life
• Life at Court

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