Rosalie Gilbert

 

Medieval Household Hints:
Advice on Running a Household From The Middle Ages Which You Still Need Today

The household advice in this petite coffee table style book is taken from the pages of actual medieval manuscripts is as relevant today as it was back then.

Photographed with an array of modern women and handcrafted reproductions of historic artifacts, this little book makes a perfect little gift for your favourite modern person.

This book is proudly Australian written, photographed, processed and printed in Australia by Australian businesses right here in Brisbane. 100% Australian every step of the way.

Book specs:
Medieval Household Hints
Advice on Running a Household From The Middle Ages Which You Still Need Today.
Genre: Petite Coffee Table Book
Paperback: 64 pages
Illustrations: 60 photographs
Format: Full colour
Printed: InHouse Publishing, Underwood, Brisbane
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-646-73501-6
Product Dimensions: 20.3cm x 20.3cm
Weight: 370 grams 

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Hildegarde von Bingham, like many of her contemporaries, felt that the natural world had a lot to offer, and this was applicable to the pains which accompanied childbirth. This was not considered witchcraft, as stones were a part of the natural world, given to us by God, and therefore to be used in the proper way to help us.

You'll notice that the use of the sard in this instance, was not magical in the least itself, but coupled with an invocation to God to help the suffering mother. 

Here are the mineral properties of sard, as listed on the gemrockauctions website:


None of this seems particularly helpful for a birthing mother. The most helpful thing in the advice from Hildegarde was to massage the thighs.

Seriously, don't fall for the lies he's telling you.

I'm very excited to announce that I've successfully made my very own little Square shop. It's similar to Etsy, but I can manage everything, and they only take commission on sales, not have a monthly fee likes other online marketing tools.

It was a not much of a challenge to make the website and the phone app all sync and get the stock to be the same and learn how to manage it with my own mobile hotspot. A few little hiccups, but easily navigated. It has a great little card reader, so now for the first time, people can use their credit cards to buy things!

I did have trouble with the shipping estimator, but since I have prices for shipping from my post office, the best work around for me was to create multiple listings INCLUDING the postage to different countries. The shopper just needs to select the item with the right country flag on it and they can pay for the item plus shipping. It's a small problem if someone wants a few heavy things in the one package, but they can contact me directly if it's over a certain weight and I can work around there.

I don't have so many sales myself that I can't make this a workable solution, so it's working great for me!

I used photos of my niece, who has been very kind about letting me use her face on things and I love the colour scheme and clean look of the site. I've been able to link my Things For Sale on my regular Rosalie's Medieval Woman website to the shop and so far, that's worked well too, so that all my old links remain in place but point here.

My special Xmas book offer is now active!

Use the special code ITSAWRAP when you order on the website, you can take advantage of a special offer! If you'd like to buy Medieval Wisdom For Modern Women for someone as a festive gift, instead of me posting to you and you posting to someone else, I can wrap the book, write your message on the gift tag and post it directly to your recipient overseas for you! I can add bookmarks too, which you can find on the website shop also.

It saves you two sets of postage, and that's a saving to you!

You can order the book by emailling books@rosaliegilbert.com for the cost of postage in your part of the world, but the maximum postage will be AU$15.00, and in many countries, less! Payment is by Paypal, so I'll need to get your details for that and I'll send you an invoice.

I've needed to make a new footer for posts on my Author blog page for the new Medieval Wisdom for Modern Women book, so I did that today keeping in with the general pink theme.

And I've needed to update the other footer to add in the new book at the bottom and add a link to the website for ordering. So that's done too now.

The pre-book things continue getting all the things done for promotions... stickers to go on delivery boxes, new business cards with the cover on, a cute set of promotional bookmarks and a couple of coffee mugs for prize pack giveaways. At this point, it's all Australian posting. I looked into an Amazon release as well but to sell soft covers as actual books, I need to pay them to print them, which is essentially what I'm doing now here in Brisbane.o unless they get picked up by an actual publisher overseas, they'll not be going outside of Australia due to the horrendous postage pricing.

The Rosalie's Medieval Woman Online Shop is in place, upgraded from the other book shopping page, but there's no actual cart yet. People will need to email me with their order and use the PaypalMe function that Paypal has where I request a payment, so much like an invoice. It's better than nothing, and cheaper than an e-commerce business package or Etsy shop because I really don't think I'm going to sell huge quantities. Local bookshops, the museum shop and places which stock my other book are my main sellers anyway, so I feel it's not the end of the world. My son, who is in IT is checking out drop in webshops for me and we may have an affordable solution there. Maybe I need to re-look at Etsy but I think there are monthly fees which may outstrip what I make.

Anyway, busy weekend of getting things ready and getting promotional emails out ready for books to arrive, so they can go into shop Xmas catalogues as sweet little stocking fillers.

Wish me luck!