Elizabeth's London; Everyday Life in Elizabethan London

Elizabeth's London is a storehouse of fascinating information. Every page contains a nugget. Acrisp and square copy.

From Publisher:

'Reading this book is like taking a ride on a marvellously exhilarating time-machine, alive with colour, surprise and sheer merriment' Jan Morris

Elizabethan 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.

Product Info

ISBN: 0753817578

ISBN-13: 9780753817575

Publisher: Pheonix

Year: 2004

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

Seller Info

powellbooks

Address: 15 Butts Castle Ilminster, Somerset

Website: https://powellbooks.co.uk

Country: United Kingdom