Read Daily Life in Elizabethan England Online
Authors: Jeffrey L. Forgeng
See also
tithes
mills
teachers, 14, 28, 41, 53, 57
weaving, 17, 94
teeth, 119, 121, 174
weddings,
64
, 66, 172
tee-totum, 199
weekly schedules, 76 – 78.
tennis, 194 – 95, 199
See also
Sundays
tenpins, 196, 198
wheat, 88, 92, 93, 165 – 66
theater and theaters, 6, 184 – 87
whey, 170
time, 73 – 90
Whitsun, 80, 84 – 85
tithes, 26, 27, 28
widows, 21, 42, 68
tobacco, 104, 171
wills, 28, 69, 70
toilets.
See
privies
windows, 109, 111
tourism, 231 – 32
wine, 104, 123, 164, 170, 175, 181
towns, 17 – 21, 105 – 106
winnowing, 87
toys, 51 – 52
witchcraft.
See
magic
tradesmen, 19 – 20, 33, 39, 96 – 97.
women, 40 – 43, 81, 83, 122, 199.
See also
craftsmen
See also
girls; widows
trash.
See
sanitation
woodland agriculture, 69,
travel and transportation, 104,
92, 105
105, 225 – 31
wool, 61, 93 – 94, 103, 118,
trenchers, 171, 172,
173
127 – 28, 130
trunkhose, 135
work, 74, 91 – 98.
Twelfth Night, 81
See also
holidays; income
wrestling, 192, 198
undergarments, 130 – 31
writing, 53 – 57, 97
universities, 59.
See also
education
yearly schedule, 79 – 90
yeomen, 16, 20, 24, 33,
vagrants, 21 – 23.
See also
poverty
49, 103
About the Author
DR. JEFFREY L. FORGENG is Paul S. Morgan Curator at the Higgins
Armory Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts, and adjunct associate pro-fessor of humanities at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He has published extensively on topics including daily life in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Robin Hood legend, and the history of games, as well as medieval and Renaissance martial arts. Forgeng did his doctorate in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto specializing in medieval and Renaissance languages and cultural history, and was for many years an editor for the
Middle English Dictionary .