3 edition of Life in Elizabethan London found in the catalog.
Life in Elizabethan London
Peggy Miller
Published
1976
by Methuen in London
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Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | Peggy Miller ; illustrated with photographs and with drawings by Gareth Floyd. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | DA688 .M45 1976 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 96 p. : |
| Number of Pages | 96 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL4950956M |
| ISBN 10 | 0416801803 |
| LC Control Number | 76379128 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 2614045 |
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An illustration of an open book. Books. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video. An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio. An illustration of a " floppy disk. Software. An illustration of two photographs. Life in Elizabethan London by Gail Stewart. Publication date TopicsPages: Society began to form along new lines in the Tudor years. If feudal England was an age of community, Tudor England was one of individuality. Nobility and knights were still at the top of the social ladder, but the real growth in society was in the merchant class. It is easy to think of the nobility.
For a country with a virgin queen, Elizabethan England was just stewing in sin. Or maybe it only seems that way from society’s portrayal in the books, plays, and pamphlets of the period. Maybe those authors, playwrights, and publishers understood the timeless craving for true crime stories, and happily fed people’s appetites. The past is a foreign country - this is your guide. We think of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign () as a golden age. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the s, where would you stay? Wh.
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Elizabeth's London is an entertaining account of everyday life in Elizabethan London. The level of interest I had varied throughout the book; I found myself less drawn into the earlier chapters about the built environment than into later chapters about Elizabethan law, the welfare system, although the information about water transportation on 4/5.
This picture of the London of Queen Elizabeth () is the result of Liza Picard's curiosity about the practical details of daily life that almost every history book ignores. As seen in her two previous, highly acclaimed books-Restoration London and Dr.
Johnson's London-she has immersed herself in contemporary sources of every by: 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 /5(61).
From Shakespeare, Anthony Burgess, The city meant roughly what we mean by the City of London--a crammed commercial huddle that smells the river. The Thames was everybody's thoroughfare. The Londoners of Chaucer's time had had difficulty bridging it; the Elizabethans had achieved only London Bridge.
This picture of the London of Queen Elizabeth () is the result of Liza Picard's curiosity about the practical details of daily life that almost every history book ignores.
As seen in her two previous, highly acclaimed books-Restoration London and Dr. Johnson's London-she has immersed herself in contemporary sources of every kind. She begins with the River Thames, the lifeblood of 4/5(4).
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Beginning with the River Thames, she examines the city on the north bank, still largely confined within the old Roman walls. The wealthy lived in mansions upriver, and the royal palaces were even farther up at Westminster. On the south bank, theaters and spectacles drew the 4/5(4).
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Beginning with the River Thames, she examines the city on the north bank, still largely confined within the old Roman walls.
Liza Picard was born in She is the bestselling author an acclaimed series of books on the history of London: ELIZABETH'S LONDON, RESTORATION LONDON, DR JOHNSON'S LONDON and VICTORIAN LONDON. Her most recent book, CHAUCER'S PEOPLE, explores the Middle Ages through the lives of the pilgrims in THE CANTERBURY TALES.
Life in Shakespeare's London From Shakespeare's London by Henry Thew Stephenson. New York: H. Holt. This people, in a sense, was an ignorant people.
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Get this from a library. Elizabeth's London: everyday life in Elizabethan London. [Liza Picard] -- Liza Picard's skilful and vivid evocation of the London of years ago enables us to share the delights, as well as the horrors, of the everyday lives of our 16th century ancestors.
Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London (Life of London) by Picard, Liza at - ISBN - ISBN - W&N - - Softcover. Life in Elizabethan England Elizabeth’s reign was seen as a ‘golden age’ of culture and exploration, but society was characterised by extremes of rich and poor.
An increasing population and. Life in Elizabethan London (Book): Stewart, Gail B.: Looks at the daily life of those living in London, England, during the reign of Elizabeth I, including a glimpse of what a first-time visitor might have noticed.
Facts about Life in Elizabethan England 8: the diet of the poor people. The poor people ate a small portion of meat for it was expensive. The diet was mostly made of beer, milk, cheese and bread. See Also: 10 Facts about Life in Ancient Egypt. Facts about Life in Elizabethan .Elizabethan London When Shakespeare arrived in 16th Century London he found a great centre for entertainment.
As well as theatre for all classes, there was sports such as bull and bear-baiting, gambling, dancing and fairs. They were served by the port of London, handling inland and coastal trade as well as continental trade. Their ships were built in London. London’s population grew from ab or 60, into an estimatedin In the same period, the total population of England and Wales rose from about 2, to 4,
