Elizabeth's London Everyday Life In Elizabethan London

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Elizabeth's London Everyday Life In Elizabethan London
Author(s): Picard Liza
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Barcode: 9780753817575
Pages: 368 Pages, 1 Maps
Publication Date: 5/6/2004
Series: Life of London
Category: Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700