Read Daily Life in Elizabethan England Online
Authors: Jeffrey L. Forgeng
Andrews, 21–40. New York: Scribner, 1985.
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Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London: Simon Forman, Astrologer,
Alchemist, and Physician.
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NOVELS
A fair number of novels have been set in Elizabethan England below are some of the more recent ones. An extensive list can be found in John A.
Wagner,
Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World
(Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1999).
Buckley, Fiona.
The Doublet Affair.
New York: Scribner, 1998.
Classifi ed Bibliographies
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Burgess, Anthony.
A Dead Man in Deptford.
London: Hutchinson, 1993.
Burgess, Anthony.
Nothing Like the Sun.
New York: Norton, 1996.
Chisolm, P.F.A.
A Surfeith of Guns.
New York: Walker, 1997.
Cowell, Stephanie.
Nicholas Cooke: Actor, Soldier, Physician, Poet.
New York: Norton, 1993.
Cowell, Stephanie.
The Players.
New York: Norton, 1997.
Emerson, Kathy Lynn.
Face Down upon an Herbal.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
Finney, Patricia.
Firedrake’s Eye.
London: St Martin’s Press, 1991.
Finney, Patricia.
Unicorn’s Blood.
London: St Martin’s Press, 1998.
Garrett, George.
The Succession. A Novel of Elizabeth and James.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983.
Garrett, George.
Death of the Fox.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.
Harper, Karen.
The Poyson Garden.
New York: Delacorte, 1999.
Scott, Melissa, and Lisa A. Barnett.
The Armor of Light.
New York: Baen, 1988.
Tourney, Leonard.
The Bartholomew Fair Murders.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986.
Tourney, Leonard.
Familiar Spirits.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984.
Tourney, Leonard.
Knaves Templar.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
Tourney, Leonard.
Low Treason.
New York: Dutton, 1982.
Tourney, Leonard.
Old Saxon Blood.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.
Tourney, Leonard.
The Players’ Boy Is Dead.
New York: Harper-Row, 1980.
Tourney, Leonard.
Witness of Bones.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.
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Illustrations by Jeffrey Forgeng, Victoria Hadfield, and David Hoornstra were produced expressly for this volume.
Index
Page numbers in
italics
indicate illustrations.
advowson, 26 – 27
Armada, 4 – 5
agriculture, 81 – 90, 91 – 94.
armor,
12
, 117, 191
See also
champion agriculture;
army and militia, 14, 193
woodland agriculture
astronomy and astrology, 60,
ale and beer, 164, 170, 180 – 81
225, 233 – 34, 236,
alehouses, 23, 66, 171, 175, 227
237, 238
ales.
See
maygames
athletics, 196, 198
America.
See
New World
Anabaptists, 29
babies,
45
, 48.
animals, 110, 191.
See also
bees;
See also
childbirth
cats; dogs; livestock; horses;
backgammon, 197, 205
sheep; vermin
badminton, 195
animal sports, 82, 189 – 91
baking.
See
cooking
apprentices, 19, 62 – 63, 139
ballads, 114, 187
aprons, 141
bandy-ball, 194
archbishops, 20, 28, 31
baptism, 41, 44 – 45, 78
archdeacons, 19, 20, 27, 28
barley, 82, 92, 93, 166, 170
archery, 183, 192 – 93, 199
Barley Break, 196, 198, 201
aristocracy, 9 – 11, 2, 39, 103.
barristers.
See
lawyers
See also
gentlemen; noblemen
Base, 196, 198
arithmetic and mathematics,
bathing.
See
washing
53, 60, 237
beans.
See
legumes
270 Index
bearbaiting and bullbaiting,
caps.
See
headgear
190 – 91
cards, 184, 198, 200, 207 – 10
bedchamber.
See
chamber
carpets, 114, 116
beds, 74, 75, 107, 116 – 18, 227.
cassocks, 104, 139, 160 – 61
See also
furnishings; sleeping
catechism, 51, 53, 77
beer.
See
ale
Catholicism, 1 – 4, 26, 28 – 29, 30,
bees, 110
235.
See also
Jesuits; Pope
beggars,
13
, 23
cats, 191
belts, 140
cellars, 109, 113
Bible, 77, 104, 187, 235
chaff, 87, 93, 107, 118
billiards, 199
chamber, bedchamber, 109, 110,
birth.
See
childbirth
114, 116 – 17
bishops, 20, 27 – 28, 29, 31, 236
chamber pot, 75, 119
blast furnace, 96
champion (open-field) agriculture,
Blindman’s Buff, 197, 198, 199
69, 92, 105.
See also
villages
boats.
See
ships and boats
checkers, 197
bodices, 132 – 34, 144 – 47
cheese, 104, 117, 164, 165, 167, 168.
books, 104, 187.
See also
dairy produce
See also
broadsides; reading
chess, 197
boots, 138
chests.
See
furnishings
bowls, 195, 200, 204
childbirth, 41, 43 – 44, 239
bread, 164, 165 – 66, 172, 176
children, 43, 46 – 63, 173 – 74, 200
breakfast, 54, 57, 74, 77, 163 – 64
chimneys, 89, 107, 109, 110.
breeches, 48, 75, 131, 149 – 50.
See also
fire
See also
Venetian breeches
Christmas, 58, 90, 181, 197, 201
brewing.
See
ale