Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear
Author(s): Elizabeth P Archibald (The Johns Hopkins University)
Want to know how to garden with lobsters? How to sober up? Grow a beard? Or simply how to make a perfect omelet? Look no further. Rather, look backward. Based on the popular blog, Ask the Past is full of the wisdom of the ages--as well as the fad diets, zany pickup lines, and bacon Band-Aids of the ages. Drawn from centuries of antique texts by historian and bibliophile Elizabeth P. Archibald, Ask the Past offers a delightful array of advice both wise and weird. Whether it's eighteenth-century bedbug advice (sprinkle bed with gunpowder and let smolder), budget fashion tips of the Middle Ages (save on the clothes, splurge on the purse) or a sixteenth-century primer on seduction (hint: do no pass gas), Ask the Past is a wildly entertaining guide to life from the people who lived it first.
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Yale-educated historian Elizabeth P. Archibald is an instructor at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins. Her research focuses on the history of education from antiquity to the Renaissance, as well as the history of books. She launched the blog Ask the Past in 2013.
General Fields
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- : Hachette Books
- : Hachette Books
- : 0.318
- : 01 May 2015
- : 183mm X 137mm X 25mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Elizabeth P Archibald (The Johns Hopkins University)
- : Elizabeth P Archibald (The Johns Hopkins University)
- : Hardback
- : Hardback
- : English
- : English
- : 032.01
- : 032.01
- : 304
- : 304