How to be a Tudor
Subtitle: a dawn-to-dusk guide to Tudor life
By: Ruth Goodman
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781631491399
Copyright date: 2915
Subjects: Social conditions; Social life and customs; History
Description: "Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Tudor conditions, Goodman serves as our ... guide to sixteenth-century living. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this ... illustrative work celebrates the ordinary lives of those who labored through the era. From sounding the hue and cry to alert a village to danger to malting grain for homemade ale, from the gruesome sport of bear-baiting cuckolding and cross-dressing--the madcap habits and revealing intimacies of life in the time of Shakespeare are ... rendered for the insatiably curious"--Amazon.com.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Viking... under the title "How to be a Tudor: a dawn-to-dusk guide to everyday life"" -- title page verso

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: At cock's crow; title: To wash or not to wash; title: Dressing; title: Breakfast; title: Education; title: Dinner; title: Men's work; title: Women's work; title: A time to play; title: Supper; title: And so to bed.