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The time traveler's guide to Elizabethan England / Ian Mortimer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, New York : Viking, [2013]Description: xx, 393 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780670026074 (hbk.)
  • 0670026077 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 942.05/5 23
LOC classification:
  • DA355 .M687 2013
Contents:
The landscape -- The people -- Religion -- Character -- Basic essentials -- What to wear -- Traveling -- Where to stay -- What to eat and drink -- Hygiene, illness, and medicine -- Law and disorder -- Entertainment.
Summary: " ... this popular history explores daily life in Queen Elizabeth's England, taking us inside the homes and minds of ordinary citizens as well as luminaries of the period, including Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir Francis Drake. Organized as a travel guide for the time-hopping tourist, Mortimer relates in delightful (and occasionally disturbing) detail everything from the sounds and smells of sixteenth-century England to the complex and contradictory Elizabethan attitudes toward violence, class, sex, and religion. Original enough to interest those with previous knowledge of Elizabethan England and accessible enough to entertain those without, The Time Traveler's Guide is a book for Elizabethan enthusiasts and history buffs alike."--
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Book Book Sonoma Academy Library 942.05 MOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 500429
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Originally published: London : Bodley Head, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-360) and index.

The landscape -- The people -- Religion -- Character -- Basic essentials -- What to wear -- Traveling -- Where to stay -- What to eat and drink -- Hygiene, illness, and medicine -- Law and disorder -- Entertainment.

" ... this popular history explores daily life in Queen Elizabeth's England, taking us inside the homes and minds of ordinary citizens as well as luminaries of the period, including Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir Francis Drake. Organized as a travel guide for the time-hopping tourist, Mortimer relates in delightful (and occasionally disturbing) detail everything from the sounds and smells of sixteenth-century England to the complex and contradictory Elizabethan attitudes toward violence, class, sex, and religion. Original enough to interest those with previous knowledge of Elizabethan England and accessible enough to entertain those without, The Time Traveler's Guide is a book for Elizabethan enthusiasts and history buffs alike."--

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