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Name: How To Be a Tudor

Full name: How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

Author: Ruth Goodman
Year: 2015
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History, Non Fiction, Historical fiction

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ISBNs:
9781631492532
1631492535

On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I. A celebrated master of British social and domestic history, Ruth Goodman draws on her own adventures living in re-created Tudor conditions to serve as our intrepid guide to sixteenth-century living. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this "immersive, engrossing" (Slate) work pays tribute to the lives of those who labored through the era. From using soot from candle wax as toothpaste to malting grain for homemade ale, from the gruesome sport of bear-baiting to cuckolding and cross-dressing--the madcap habits and revealing intimacies of life in the time of Shakespeare are vividly rendered for the insatiably curious.

This book is part of the "How to Be" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"How to Be a Victorian"
First published in 2013
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"How to Be a Normal Person"
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