The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England

The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England

Author: Kathy Lynn Emerson

Publisher: Belgrave House

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 0974106879

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For the writer and anyone else interested in Renaissance England (1485-1649), this remarkable resource covers the day-to-day details: fashions, food, customs, family life, the Royal Court, law and punishment, holidays, city and rural living, seafaring and land occupations, alehouses, marriage, birth and death rituals—and a great deal more, written with authority in a wonderfully readable style. Included are bibliographies and internet addresses for further research. Nonfiction Historical Resource by Kathy Lynn Emerson; originally published by Writer’s Digest Books


The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England

The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England

Author: Kathy Lynn Emerson

Publisher: Kathy Lynn Emerson

Published: 2023-07-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England, revised in 2023, was originally published in 1996 as part of the Writers Digest Books Everyday Life series. It contains chapters on: Clothes and Accessories; Food and Drink; Architecture; Furnishing a House; Marriage and Family; Physic and Physicians; Government; Monarchs, Nobles, and Commoners; Crime and Punishment; Coins, Money, and How Much Things Cost; War and Peace; Seafaring; Education, Secular and Religious; Employment; Entertainment; Language; Life in London and Other Cities; Rural Life; Travel and Travelers; and Witches, Magic, Necromancy, and Superstition. "Even if you're not writing historical fiction, this volume is full of fascinating period information." Booklist Kathy Lynn Emerson is also the author of A Who's Who of Tudor Women, How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries, and numerous historical mysteries, including the Face Down Series, the Mistress Jaffrey Mysteries, and the Diana Spaulding 1888 Quartet.


Daily Life in Elizabethan England

Daily Life in Elizabethan England

Author: Jeffrey L. Forgeng

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2009-11-19

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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This book offers an experiential perspective on the lives of Elizabethans—how they worked, ate, and played—with hands-on examples that include authentic music, recipes, and games of the period. Daily Life in Elizabethan England: Second Edition offers a fresh look at Elizabethan life from the perspective of the people who actually lived it. With an abundance of updates based on the most current research, this second edition provides an engaging—and sometimes surprising—picture of what it was like to live during this distant time. Readers will learn, for example, that Elizabethans were diligent recyclers, composting kitchen waste and collecting old rags for papermaking. They will discover that Elizabethans averaged less than 2 inches shorter than their modern British counterparts, and, in a surprising echo of our own age, that many Elizabethan city dwellers relied on carryout meals—albeit because they lacked kitchen facilities. What further sets the book apart is its "hands-on" approach to the past with the inclusion of actual music, games, recipes, and clothing patterns based on primary sources.


Henry VIII’s True Daughter

Henry VIII’s True Daughter

Author: Wendy J Dunn

Publisher: Pen and Sword History

Published: 2024-02-01

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1399012258

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The lives of Tudor women often offer faint but fascinating footnotes on the pages of history. The life of Catherine – or Katryn as her husband would one day pen her name – Carey, the daughter of Mary Boleyn and, as the weight of evidence suggests, Henry VIII, is one of those footnotes. As the possible daughter of Henry VIII, the niece of Anne Boleyn and the favourite of Elizabeth I, Catherine’s life offers us a unique perspective on the reigns of Henry and his children. In this book, Wendy J. Dunn takes these brief details of Catherine’s life and turns them into a rich account of a woman who deserves her story told. Following the faint trail provided of her life from her earliest years to her death in service to Queen Elizabeth, Dunn examines the evidence of Catherine’s parentage and views her world through the lens of her relationship with the royal family she served. This book presents an important story of a woman who saw and experienced much tragedy and political turmoil during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary I – all of which prepared her to take on the vital role of one of Elizabeth I closest and most trusted women. It also prepared her to become the wife of one of Elizabeth's privy councillors – a man also trusted and relied on by the queen. Catherine served Elizabeth during the uncertain and challenging first years of her reign, a time when there was a question mark over whether she would succeed as queen regnant after the failures of England's first crowned regnant, her sister Mary. Through immense research and placing her in the context of her period, HENRY VIII’S TRUE DAUGHTER: CATHERINE CAREY, A TUDOR LIFE draws Catherine out of the shadows of history to take her true place as the daughter of Henry VIII and shows how vital women like Catherine were to Elizabeth and the ultimate victory of her reign.


Letterwriting in Renaissance England

Letterwriting in Renaissance England

Author: Folger Shakespeare Library

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Reproduces in full size and transcribes a number of letters from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries


The Library Journal

The Library Journal

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 1130

ISBN-13:

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Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.


At the Mercy of the Queen

At the Mercy of the Queen

Author: Anne Clinard Barnhill

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2012-01-03

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 142992554X

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A sweeping tale of sexual seduction and intrigue at the court of Henry VIII, At the Mercy of the Queen is a rich and dramatic debut historical about Madge Shelton, cousin and lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn. At the innocent age of fifteen, Lady Margaret Shelton arrives at the court of Henry VIII and quickly becomes the confidante of her cousin, Queen Anne Boleyn. But she soon finds herself drawn into the perilous web of Anne's ambition. Desperate to hold onto the king's waning affection, Anne schemes to have him take her guileless young cousin as mistress, ensuring her husband's new paramour will owe her loyalty to the queen. But Margaret has fallen deeply in love with a handsome young courtier. She is faced with a terrible dilemma: give herself to the king and betray the love of her life or refuse to become his mistress and jeopardize the life of the her cousin, Queen Anne. "A stunningly engrossing and fast read; historical fiction readers will snatch it up and shout, ‘Thank you!'"—Library Journal (starred review)


The Detective as Historian

The Detective as Historian

Author: Ray Browne

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2009-03-26

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1443807559

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"Deeper understanding of history is enhanced by encasing it in art and interest. Crime fiction is one of the widest and most rapidly growing forms of literature. Historical crime fiction serves effectively the double purpose of entertaining while it teaches. The "truth" of the narrative account, the editors of this volume believe, is dependent on the understanding of human nature reflected in the author who writes the narrative. "Historical crime fiction," the editors of this volume write, "has an obligation and a golden opportunity. It must bring the past up to the present through the device of timeless crime and it must take the reader into the world about which is being written so that the characters are alive and the events interesting and challenging." Professional writers of fiction need to be more effective than mere authors of dates and assumed motivations. Therefore they can fill in human motivations and drives where no records exist and can aid the professional historians in what historian David Thelen calls the "challenge of history " which is "to recover the past and [interpret it for] the present." The essays in this volume accept the challenge and make major accomplishments for meeting it.


Everyday Life Among the American Indians

Everyday Life Among the American Indians

Author: Candy Vyvey Moulton

Publisher: Cincinnati, OH : Writer's Digest Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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The portrayal of native Americans and the role they played in American history has been riddled with stereotypes and falsehoods. Moulton attempts to correct decades of misinformation with insightful scholarship on the real story. Includes maps, illustrations, chronologies and reference sources.