Author Description

Product Description A history of peasants in the Middle Ages, the story takes the listener into the life of Marion, the carpenter's wife, and her extended family as they struggle to survive through hardship, featuring a year in their lives at the mercy of the weather and the Lord of the Manor. Existing without soap, paper or glass and only with the most basic of tools, we learn how they survive starvation, sickness, fire and natural disaster in their home on the edge of the Weald. About the Author Ann Baer is former director of the fine art publishers Ganymed Press. She hand-illustrated Medieval Woman, and has maintained a lifelong interest in medieval England.