Liza Picard's wonderfully skilful and vivid evocation of the London of Elizabeth I enables us to share the delights, as well as the horrors, of the everyday lives of our sixteenth-century ancestors. The grime and the glamour are uniquely portrayed in this excellent work. Cares could be forgotten in a playhouse or the bull-baiting of bear-baiting rings, or watching a good cockfight. Liza Picard has her finger on the pulse of Elizabethan London. But food and drink, sex and marriage and family life provided comfort. Plague, smallpox and other diseases afflicted them. Then the Londoners of the time take the stage, in all their amazing finery. Liza Picard surveys building methods and shows us the interior decor of the rich and the not-so-rich, and what they were likely to be growing in their gardens.
She teaches us about medical care (so very primitive), childbirth (how any woman survived it is a mystery), and burial practices. It begins with the River Thames, the lifeblood of Elizabethan London, before turning to the streets and the traffic in them. Picard offers a stunning account of an impromptu brain surgery one afternoon at the Bear Garden, detailed instructions on how to erect a timber-frame house and how to put together a ruff collar (some had 600 pleats). Elizabeths London Everyday Life in Elizabethan London By: Liza Picard Narrated by. Discover more authors you’ll love listening to on Audible. 'Reading this book is like taking a ride on a marvellously exhilarating time-machine, alive with colour, surprise and sheer merriment' Jan Morris Elizabethan London reveals the practical details of everyday life so often ignored in conventional history books. Browse Liza Picard’s best-selling audiobooks and newest titles.
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