β Scribed by Ruth Goodman
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
From an historian who advised on the BBCβs Wolf Hall, an erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England.
On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Tudor conditions, Goodman serves as our intrepid guide to sixteenth-century living. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this charming, illustrative work celebrates the ordinary lives of those who labored through the era. From sounding the βhue and cryβ to alert a village to danger to malting grain for homemade ale, from the gruesome sport of bear-baiting to cuckolding and cross-dressingβthe madcap habits and revealing intimacies of life in the time of Shakespeare are vividly rendered for the insatiably curious.
8 pages of color illustrations
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