Daily Life in Elizabethan England (56 page)

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 .