Daily Life in Elizabethan England
2nd Edition
Published on 19. November 2009
300 pages
978-0-313-36561-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book offers an experiential perspective on the lives of Elizabethans-how they worked, ate, and played-with hands-on examples that include authentic music, recipes, and games of the period.
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 the most 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 2 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. What further sets the book apart is its "hands-on" approach to the past with the inclusion of actual music, games, recipes, and clothing patterns based on primary sources.
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 the most 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 2 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. What further sets the book apart is its "hands-on" approach to the past with the inclusion of actual music, games, recipes, and clothing patterns based on primary sources.
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Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Young adult
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
Illustrations
72 bw illus
File size
8,52 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-313-36561-4 (9780313365614)
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Jeffrey L. Forgeng
Daily Life in Elizabethan England
Book
11/2009
2nd Edition
Greenwood Press
€74.30
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Person
Jeffrey L. Forgeng is the Paul S. Morgan Curator at the Higgins Armory Museum and adjunct associate professor of history at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA.
Content
Preface to the Revised Edition
Acknowledgments
A Chronology of Tudor England
Introduction
1. A Brief History of Tudor England
2. Society
3. Households and the Course of Life
4. Cycles of Time
5. Material Culture
6. Clothing and Accoutrements
7. Food and Drink
8. Entertainments
9. The Elizabethan World
Glossary
Appendix: The Elizabethan Event
A Guide to Digitally Accessible Resources
Classified Bibliographies
Index
Acknowledgments
A Chronology of Tudor England
Introduction
1. A Brief History of Tudor England
2. Society
3. Households and the Course of Life
4. Cycles of Time
5. Material Culture
6. Clothing and Accoutrements
7. Food and Drink
8. Entertainments
9. The Elizabethan World
Glossary
Appendix: The Elizabethan Event
A Guide to Digitally Accessible Resources
Classified Bibliographies
Index
