Daily Life in Elizabethan England [Hardcover]

This book offers an experiential perspective on the lives of Elizabethanshow they worked, ate, and playedwith hands-on examples that include authentic music, recipes, and games of the period.

Daily Life in Elizabethan England: Second Editionoffers a fresh look at Elizabethan life from the perspective of the people who actually lived it. With an abundance of updates based on the most current research, this second edition provides an engagingand sometimes surprisingpicture of what it was like to live during this distant time.

Readers will learn, for example, that Elizabethans were diligent recyclers, composting kitchen waste and collecting old rags for papermaking. They will discover that Elizabethans averaged less than 2 inches shorter than their modern British counterparts, and, in a surprising echo of our own age, that many Elizabethan city dwellers relied on carryout mealsalbeit because they lacked kitchen facilities. What further sets the book apart is its hands-on approach to the past with the inclusion of actual music, games, recipes, and clothing patterns based on primary sources.

This text brings alive the Elizabethan Age for the high school student, providing an understanding of the context in which great historical events occurred and the daily life of the people who made them happen. ARBAonline

Forgeng wrote the original volume as a reference for living history. Now a curator at the Higgins Armory Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts, he revises it in light of the research and writing he has done in the 12 years since, and to conform to the format and style of the series. His topics include society, households and the course of life, cycles of time, material culture, clothing and accouterments, food and drink, and entertainlSu