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Daily life in Elizabethan England / Jeffrey L. Forgeng.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) DA320 .S56 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forgeng, Jeffrey L.
- Series:
- Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series
- The Greenwood Press Daily life through history series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- England--Social life and customs--16th century.
- England.
- Manners and customs.
- Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 276 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood Press, [2010]
- Summary:
- Just what did the average Elizabethan do with his or her day? Daily Life in Elizabethan England: Second Edition offers a fresh look at Elizabethan life from the perspective of the people who actually lived it. With an abundance of updates based on current research, this second edition provides an engaging-and sometimes surprising-picture of what it was like to live during this distant time.
- Readers will learn for example, that Elizabethans were diligent recyclers, composting kitchen waste and collecting old rags for papermaking. They will discover that Elizabethans averaged less than two inches shorter than their modern British counterparts, and, in a surprising echo of our own age, that many Elizabethan city dwellers relied on carryout meals-albeit because they lacked kitchen facilities. This book is enhanced with multiple primary-source sidebars in each chapter, as well as primary-source images and interactive material, including sheet music and directions for dances, game rules, recipes, and clothing patterns.
- Contents:
- 1 A Brief History of Tudor England 1
- 2 Society 7
- 3 Households and the Course of Life 39
- 4 Cycles of Time 73
- 5 Material Culture 91
- 6 Clothing and Accoutrements 125
- 7 Food and Drink 163
- 8 Entertainments 183
- 9 The Elizabethan World 225.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780313365607
- 0313365601
- 9780313365614
- 031336561X
- OCLC:
- 422756964
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