Elizabeth's London : Everyday Life in Elizabethan London Paperback / softback
by Liza Picard
Part of the Life of London series
Paperback / softback
Description
'Reading this book is like taking a ride on a marvellously exhilarating time-machine, alive with colour, surprise and sheer merriment' Jan MorrisElizabethan London reveals the practical details of everyday life so often ignored in conventional history books.
It begins with the River Thames, the lifeblood of Elizabethan London, before turning to the streets and the traffic in them.
Liza Picard surveys building methods and shows us the interior decor of the rich and the not-so-rich, and what they were likely to be growing in their gardens.
Then the Londoners of the time take the stage, in all their amazing finery.
Plague, smallpox and other diseases afflicted them. But food and drink, sex and marriage and family life provided comfort.
Cares could be forgotten in a playhouse or the bull-baiting of bear-baiting rings, or watching a good cockfight.
Liza Picard's wonderfully skilful and vivid evocation of the London of Elizabeth I enables us to share the delights, as well as the horrors, of the everyday lives of our sixteenth-century ancestors.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages, 1 Maps
- Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
- Publication Date:06/05/2004
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- ISBN:9780753817575
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages, 1 Maps
- Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
- Publication Date:06/05/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780753817575
