The Domestic Herbal: Plants for the Home in the Seventeenth Century

ISBN-13: 9781851245130 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 256 str.

Margaret Willes

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This book shows how various plants were used for cooking and brewing, medicines and cosmetics, in the making and care of clothes, and finally to keep rooms fresh, fragrant and decorated during the seventeenth-century. Richly illustrated, it provides an intriguing and original focus on the domestic history of Stuart England.