Read Daily Life in Elizabethan England Online
Authors: Jeffrey L. Forgeng
Cressy, David.
Literacy and the Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart
England.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Eccles, A.
Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Tudor and Stuart England.
Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1982.
Forsyth, Hazel, and Geoff Egan.
Toys, Trifles, and Trinkets: Base-Metal Miniatures
from London 1200 to 1800.
London: Museum of London/Unicorn, 2004.
Grafton, Anthony. “Education and Apprenticeship.” In
William Shakespeare: His
World, His Works, His Influence. Vol. 1: His World
, ed. John F. Andrews, 55–66.
New York: Scribner, 1985.
Houlbrooke, Ralph A.
Death, Religion and the Family in England, 1480–1750
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Houlbrooke, Ralph A.
The English Family 1450–1700.
London: Longman, 1984.
Houlbrooke, Ralph A., ed.
English Family Life, 1576–1716: An Anthology from Diaries.
Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988.
Ingram, Martin.
Church Courts, Sex, and Marriage in England, 1570–1640.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Kussmaul, Ann.
Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
O’Day, Rosemary.
Education and Society, 1500–1800: The Social Foundations of Education in Early Modern Britain.
London and New York: Longman, 1982.
Palliser, D. M.
The Age of Elizabeth.
London and New York: Longman, 1992.
Pearson, Lu.
The Elizabethans at Home.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1957.
Rappaport, Steve.
Worlds within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Sandys, Sir John. “Education.” In
Shakespeare’s England. An Account of the Life and
Manners of His Age.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916. 1.224–50
Stone, Lawrence.
The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England 1500–1800.
New York etc.: Harper and Row, 1977.
Thompson, Sir Edward. “Handwriting.” In
Shakespeare’s England. An Account of the
Life and Manners of His Age,
1.284–310
.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916.
Wrightson, Keith.
English Society 1580–1680.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1982.
WOMEN
Amussen, Susan.
An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England.
Oxford and New York: Blackwell, 1988.
Bradford, Gamaliel.
Elizabethan Women.
Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1936.
Camden, Carroll C.
The Elizabethan Woman.
Mamaroneck, NY: P. P. Appel, 1975.
Eccles, Audrey.
Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Tudor and Stuart England.
Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1982.
Mendelson, S., and P. Crawford.
Women in Early Modern England 1550–1720.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.
Moody, Joanna, ed.
The Private Life of an Elizabethan Lady: The Diary of Lady Margaret
Hoby 1599–1605.
Stroud: Sutton, 1998.
Sim, Alison.
The Tudor Housewife.
Stroud: Sutton, 1996.
Classifi ed Bibliographies
261
CYCLES OF TIME
Byrne, M. St. Clare, ed.
The Elizabethan Home.
London: Methuen, 1949.
Byrne, M. St. Clare.
Elizabethan Life in Town and Country.
London: Methuen, 1950.
Cressy, David.
Bonfires and Bells: National Memory and the Protestant Calendar in Elizabethan and Stuart England.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1989.
Harrison, William.
Description of England.
Ithaca, NY: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968.
Hutton, Ronald.
The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year 1400–1700.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Hutton, Ronald.
The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain.
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
MacQuoid, Percy. “The Home.” In
Shakespeare’s England. An Account of the Life and
Manners of His Age,
2.134. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916.
Wilson, John Dover.
Life in Shakespeare’s England.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1949.
MATERIAL CULTURE
Ayres, James.
Domestic Interiors: The British Tradition 1500–1850.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.
Barley, Maurice W.
Houses and History.
London: Faber and Faber, 1986.
Bishop, W. J. “Personnel and Practice of Medicine in Tudor and Stuart England.
Part 1: The Provinces.”
Medical History
6 (1957): 363–82.
Bishop, W. J. “Personnel and Practice of Medicine in Tudor and Stuart England.
Part 2: London.”
Medical History
8 (1957): 217–34.
Challis, C. E.
The Tudor Coinage.
New York: Barnes and Noble, 1978.
Charleston, R. J.
English Glass and the Glass Used in England circa 400–1940.
London: Unwin, 1984.
Chinnery, Victor.
Oak Furniture. The British Tradition.
Woodbridge: Antique Collec-tors’ Club, 1979.
Copeman, W.S.C.
Doctors and Disease in Tudor Times.
London: Dawson’s, 1960.
Evans-Thomas, Owen.
Domestic Utensils of Wood, 16th to 19th Century.
London: Owen Evan-Thomas, 1932.
Fitzherbert, Anthony.
The Book of Husbandry
[1598]. London: Trübner, 1882.
Hall, Hubert, and Frieda Nicholas, eds.
Select Tracts and Table Books of English
Weights and Measures.
London: Camden Society, 1929.
Harrison, William.
Description of England.
Ithaca, NY: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968.
Holme, Randle.
The Academy of Armory.
London: Roxburghe Club, 1905. [This consists of the final chapters of the
Academy,
which were not published in Holme’s lifetime.]
Holme, Randle.
The Academy of Armory.
Menston: Scolar Press, 1972.
Holme, Randle.
Living and Working in Seventeenth-Century England: An Encyclopedia
of Drawings and Descriptions from Randle Holme’s Original Manuscripts for The
Academy of Armory
(1688) [CD-ROM]. Edited by N. W. Alcock and Nancy Cox. London: British Library, 2001.
Holmes, Martin.
Elizabethan London.
London: Cassell, 1969.
Hornsby, Peter R. G., Rosemary Weinstein, and Ronald F. Homer.
Pewter: A Celebration of the Craft 1200–1700.
London: Museum of London, 1989.
262 Classifi ed Bibliographies
Jekyll, Gertrude.
Old English Household Life. Some Account of Cottage Objects and
Country Folk.
London: Batsford, 1925.
Lindsay, J. Seymour.
Iron and Brass Implements of the English House.
London, Boston: Medici Society, 1927.
MacGregor, Arthur.
Bone, Antler, Ivory, and Horn: The Technology of Skeletal Materials
Since the Roman Period.
London and Sydney: Croom Helm, 1985.
MacQuoid, Percy. “The Home.” In
Shakespeare’s England. An Account of the Life and
Manners of His Age,
2.119–52. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916.
Markham, Gervase.
The English Housewife.
Edited by Michael R. Best. Kingston and Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1986.
McCarthy, Michael R., and Catherine M. Brooks.
Medieval Pottery in Britain A.D.
900–1600.
Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1988.
Mercer, Eric.
English Vernacular Houses.
London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1975.
Michaelis, Ronald F.
A Short History of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers, and a
Catalogue of Pewterware in Its Possession.
London: published by the authority of the Court of Assistants, 1968.
Palliser, D. M.
The Age of Elizabeth.
London and New York: Longman, 1992.
Pelling, Margaret. “Medicine and Sanitation.” In
William Shakespeare: His World,
His Works, His Influence. Vol. 1: His World,
ed. John F. Andrews, 75–84. New York: Scribner, 1985.
The Pewter Society.
Pewter: A Handbook of Selected Tudor and Stuart Pieces.
London: the Pewter Society in association with the Museum of London, 1983.
Prothero, R. E. “Agriculture and Gardening.” In
Shakespeare’s England. An Account
of the Life and Manners of His Age,
1.346–80
.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916.
Rappaport, Steve.
Worlds within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Rogers, James E. Thorold.
A History of Agriculture and Prices in England.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882.
Singer, Charles Joseph, ed.
A History of Technology.
5 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954–1978.
Spufford, Margaret.
The Great Reclothing of Rural England.
London: Hambledon Press, 1984.
Thirsk, Joan.
The Agrarian History of England and Wales 1500–1750. Vol. 4: 1500–1640.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967.
Thirsk, Joan.
Chapters from the Agrarian History of England and Wales 1500–1750.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Thornton, Peter.
Seventeenth-Century Interior Decoration in England, France and Holland.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1978.
Treswell, Ralph.
The London Surveys of Ralph Treswell.
Edited by John Schofield.
London: London Topographical Society, 1987.
Tusser, Thomas.
Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
Edited by Geoffrey Grig-son. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Unwin, George. “Commerce and Coinage.” In
Shakespeare’s England. An Account of
the Life and Manners of His Age,
1.311–45
.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916.
Waterer, John W.
Leather Craftsmanship.
London: Bell, 1968.
Wear, Andrew.
Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550–1680.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Classifi ed Bibliographies
263
Wheatley, Henry B. “London and the Life of the Town.” In
Shakespeare’s England.