The time traveller's guide to Elizabethan England /
Ian Mortimer.
- London : Vintage, 2013, c2012.
- x, 420 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., col. maps, ports. ; 20 cm.
First published in Great Britain in 2012 by The Bodley Head.
Includes bibliographical references and idnex.
BRITISH & IRISH HISTORY: C 1500 TO C 1700. We think of Queen Elizabeth I as 'Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes, like Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis Drake, and of great writers, such as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. 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 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants, diseases, violence, sexism and famine of the time? In this book Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that a prospective traveller to late sixteenth-century England would ask.
9780099542070 (pbk.)
England--Social life and customs--16th century. England--Social conditions--16th century. Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603.