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Living like a Tudor : woodsmoke & sage : a sensory journey through Tudor England / Amy Licence.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Licence, Amy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tudor, House of.
- Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--15th century.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--16th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 384 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Pegasus books cloth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2021.
- Summary:
- Much has been written about the lives of the Tudors, but it is sometimes difficult to really grasp how they experienced the world. Using the five senses, Amy Licence presents a new perspective on the material culture of the past, exploring the Tudors' relationship with the fabric of their existence, from the clothes on their back, roofs over their heads and food on their tables, to the wider questions of how they interpreted and presented themselves, and beliefs about life, death and beyond. This book helps recapture the past: what were the Tudors' favorite perfumes? How did the weather affect their lives? What sounds from the past have been lost? Take a journey back 500 years, to experience the Tudor world as closely as possible, through sights, sound, smell, taste and touch.--www.simonandschuster.com, October 25, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I SIGHT
- PEN AND BRUSH
- The Ambassadors
- Strutting Kings
- Portraits in Courtship
- The Portrait Elite
- Family Groups
- Ordinary Tudor Faces
- Pen Portraits
- The Iconic Virgin
- CLOTH AND THREAD
- Early Tudor Peacocks
- Clothing as Battleground
- Clothing, Gender and Sexuality
- Ordinary People's Clothing
- BRICK AND FIELD
- How England Looked
- Royal Buildings
- Rich and Poor
- Inside the Home
- Possessions
- Working Interiors
- Religious Interiors
- CROWD AND RITUAL
- Entrances and Exits
- Revels
- Theatre
- Enacting Justice
- Phenomena
- COMMUNICATION
- The Written Word
- The Printed Word
- Map-Making
- Telling the Time
- Restricted Sight
- pt. II SMELL
- Ubiquitous Scents
- Pipe Smoke
- Foul Bodies
- Clean Clothes
- Perfume
- Waste Disposal
- Death and Decay
- pt. III SOUND
- Music
- Measuring and Warning
- Proclaiming News
- Gossip and Sedition
- Domestic Sounds
- pt. IV TASTE
- Dining Habits
- On the Menu
- Specific Foods
- Drink
- Taste Buds
- Sweets
- Eating Out
- Supply
- Dangerous Foods
- pt. V TOUCH
- The Humours in Balance
- Plague and Sweat
- Pain and Suffering
- Sex, Pregnancy and Birth
- Violence
- Imprisonment
- Poverty
- Weather
- The Farmer's Cycle
- Sport and Games.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-371) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781643138152
- 1643138154
- OCLC:
- 1272908174
- Publisher Number:
- 99991412581
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