A noble woman’s place …..

There is an interesting article on the website of The Conversation about household management in the middle ages by women of high estate. Such skills were very necessary then and in later centuries to ensure the health and well-being of family and servants, and also the maintaince of the dignity appropriate to the  household. These were not just medicinal skills but also concerned with oversight of the meals and provisions, and raising daughters, female relatives and staff to be able to marry well, and living devout lives.

The illustrated article about the widely circulated Régime du corps, written about 1256, can be read at Medieval illustrated manuscripts reveal how upper-class women managed healthy households – overseeing everything from purging, leeching and cupping to picking the right wet nurse