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How to be a Tudor, a dawn-to-dusk guide to Tudor life, Ruth Goodman

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How to be a Tudor, a dawn-to-dusk guide to Tudor life, Ruth Goodman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How to be a Tudor

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Ruth Goodman

Sub title

a dawn-to-dusk guide to Tudor life

Summary

On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Tudor conditions, Goodman serves as our intrepid guide to sixteenth-century living. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this charming, illustrative work celebrates the ordinary lives of those who labored through the era. From sounding the “hue and cry” to alert a village to danger to malting grain for homemade ale, from the gruesome sport of bear-baiting to cuckolding and cross-dressing?the madcap habits and revealing intimacies of life in the time of Shakespeare are vividly rendered for the insatiably curious

Table Of Contents

At cock's crow -- To wash or not to wash -- Dressing -- Breakfast -- Education -- Dinner -- Men's work -- Women's work -- A time to play -- Supper -- And so to bed

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