Living Like a Tudor: Woodsmoke and Sage: A Sensory Journey Through Tudor England
Take a 500-year journey back in time and experience the Tudor Era through the five senses.

Much has been written about the lives of the Tudors, but it is sometimes difficult to really grasp how they experienced the world. Using the five senses, Amy Licence presents a new perspective on the material culture of the past, exploring the Tudors’ relationship with the fabric of their existence, from the clothes on their back, roofs over their heads and food on their tables, to the wider questions of how they interpreted and presented themselves, and beliefs about life, death and beyond. This book helps recapture the past: what were the Tudors’ favorite perfumes? How did the weather affect their lives? What sounds from the past have been lost? Take a journey back 500 years, to experience the Tudor world as closely as possible, through sights, sound, smell, taste and touch.
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Living Like a Tudor: Woodsmoke and Sage: A Sensory Journey Through Tudor England
Take a 500-year journey back in time and experience the Tudor Era through the five senses.

Much has been written about the lives of the Tudors, but it is sometimes difficult to really grasp how they experienced the world. Using the five senses, Amy Licence presents a new perspective on the material culture of the past, exploring the Tudors’ relationship with the fabric of their existence, from the clothes on their back, roofs over their heads and food on their tables, to the wider questions of how they interpreted and presented themselves, and beliefs about life, death and beyond. This book helps recapture the past: what were the Tudors’ favorite perfumes? How did the weather affect their lives? What sounds from the past have been lost? Take a journey back 500 years, to experience the Tudor world as closely as possible, through sights, sound, smell, taste and touch.
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Living Like a Tudor: Woodsmoke and Sage: A Sensory Journey Through Tudor England

Living Like a Tudor: Woodsmoke and Sage: A Sensory Journey Through Tudor England

by Amy Licence
Living Like a Tudor: Woodsmoke and Sage: A Sensory Journey Through Tudor England

Living Like a Tudor: Woodsmoke and Sage: A Sensory Journey Through Tudor England

by Amy Licence

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Overview

Take a 500-year journey back in time and experience the Tudor Era through the five senses.

Much has been written about the lives of the Tudors, but it is sometimes difficult to really grasp how they experienced the world. Using the five senses, Amy Licence presents a new perspective on the material culture of the past, exploring the Tudors’ relationship with the fabric of their existence, from the clothes on their back, roofs over their heads and food on their tables, to the wider questions of how they interpreted and presented themselves, and beliefs about life, death and beyond. This book helps recapture the past: what were the Tudors’ favorite perfumes? How did the weather affect their lives? What sounds from the past have been lost? Take a journey back 500 years, to experience the Tudor world as closely as possible, through sights, sound, smell, taste and touch.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781643138152
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Publication date: 11/02/2021
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 1,012,777
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Amy Licence is a bestselling historian of women's lives in the medieval and early modern period, from Queens to commoners. She is the author of Red Roses andThe Lost Kings.

Table of Contents

Introduction 11

Part I Sight

Pen and Brush: 15

The Ambassadors 15

Strutting Kings 19

Portraits in Courtship 24

The Portrait Elite 29

Family Groups 32

Ordinary Tudor Faces 37

Pen Portraits 40

The Iconic Virgin 44

Cloth and Thread: 49

Early Tudor Peacocks 49

Clothing as Battleground 59

Clothing, Gender and Sexuality 69

Ordinary People's Clothing 76

Brick and Field: 86

How England Looked 86

Royal Buildings 94

Rich and Poor 100

Inside the Home 103

Possessions 106

Working Interiors 118

Religious Interiors 124

Crowd and Ritual: 130

Entrances and Exits 130

Revels 140

Theatre 148

Enacting Justice 151

Phenomena 160

Communication: 166

The Written Word 166

The Printed Word 175

Map-Making 181

Telling the Time 185

Restricted Sight 188

Part II Smell

Ubiquitous Scents 195

Pipe Smoke 197

Foul Bodies 200

Clean Clothes 204

Perfume 207

Waste Disposal 211

Death and Decay 217

Part III Sound

Music 223

Measuring and Warning 227

Proclaiming News 229

Gossip and Sedition 233

Domestic Sounds 238

Part IV Taste

Dining Habits 245

On the Menu 250

Specific Foods 260

Drink 267

Taste Buds 270

Sweets 275

Eating Out 277

Supply 280

Dangerous Foods 285

Part V Touch

The Humours in Balance 291

Plague and Sweat 296

Pain and Suffering 300

Sex, Pregnancy and Birth 309

Violence 316

Imprisonment 320

Poverty 327

Weather 334

The Farmer's Cycle 339

Sport and Games 344

Epilogue 348

Notes 349

Select Bibliography 368

Acknowledgements 372

Index 373

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