Food and Feast in Tudor England

Author: Alison Sim
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752495429
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 203

Book Description
Chapters cover food and society in the sixteenth century, kitchens and cooking, what people drank, food and health (including Tudor ideas on healthy eating), setting the table and table manners, feasting and banquets. Alison Sim shows that dining habits in the sixteenth century were not the same as those of the Middle Ages and that Tudor dining, at least for the wealthier section of the population, was much more sophisticated than it is generally given credit for.

Masters and Servants in Tudor England

Author: Alison Sim
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752495666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
Although life in Tudor was ordered in a strict hierarchy, service was common for all classes, and servants were not necessarily the lowest stratum in society. This book looks at the servant life in the Tudor period. It examines relations between servants and their masters, peering into the bedrooms, kitchens and parlours of the ordinary folk.

Tudor England

Author: Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136745300
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 863

Book Description
This is the first encyclopedia to be devoted entirely to Tudor England. 700 entries by top scholars in every major field combine new modes of archival research with a detailed Tudor chronology and appendix of biographical essays. Entries include: * Edward Alleyn [actor/theatre manager] * Roger Ascham * Bible translation * cloth trade * Devereux family * Espionage * Family of Love * food and diet * James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell * inns * Ket's Rebellion * John Lyly * mapmaking * Frances Meres * miniature painting * Pavan * Pilgrimage of Grace * Revels Office * Ridolfi plot * Lady Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke * treason * and much more. Also includes an 8-page color insert.

Food and Feast in Tudor England

Author: Alison Sim
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
ISBN: 9780750937726
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
If you thought that the Tudors' eating habits consisted mainly of riotous quaffing and hurling chicken legs over their shoulders, think again! This clearly-written overview of sixteenth-century attitudes to food and eating covers a vast range of topics, from kitchens and kitchen equipment, beer and brewing, table manners, feasts and luxury foods and wine. Sim also explores Tudor ideas about health and diet, revealing that they had explicit ideas about the effects of various foods on the body and the health-giving properties of certain ingredients.

Taste

Author: Kate Colquhoun
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408834081
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 604

Book Description
From the Iron Age to the Industrial Revolution, the Romans to the Regency, few things have mirrored society or been affected by its upheavals as much as the food we eat and the way we prepare it. In this involving history of the British people, Kate Colquhoun celebrates every aspect of our cuisine from Anglo-Saxon feasts and Tudor banquets, through the skinning of eels and the invention of ice cream, to Dickensian dinner-party excess and the growth of frozen food. Taste tells a story as rich and diverse as a five-course dinner.

The Tudor Housewife

Author: Alison Sim
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773522336
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
Alison Sim is a specialist in Tudor housewifery skills, thus the more complete and stimulating overview of life for 16th century women. Many books dealing with this subject tend to give recipes and medicines without comment.

A Tudor Christmas

Author: Alison Weir
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 147355442X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Christmas in Tudor times was a period of feasting, revelry and merrymaking ‘to drive the cold winter away’. A carnival atmosphere presided at court, with a twelve-day-long festival of entertainments, pageants, theatre productions and ‘disguisings’, when even the king and queen dressed up in costume to fool their courtiers. Throughout the festive season, all ranks of subjects were freed for a short time from everyday cares to indulge in eating, drinking, dancing and game-playing. We might assume that our modern Christmas owes much to the Victorians. In fact, as Alison Weir and Siobhan Clarke reveal in this fascinating book, many of our favourite Christmas traditions date back much further. Carol-singing, present-giving, mulled wine and mince pies were all just as popular in Tudor times, and even Father Christmas and roast turkey dinners have their origins in this period. The festival was so beloved by English people that Christmas traditions survived remarkably unchanged in this age of tumultuous religious upheaval. Beautifully illustrated with original line drawings throughout, this enchanting compendium will fascinate anyone with an interest in Tudor life – and anyone who loves Christmas.

So Great a Prince

Author: Lauren Johnson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681775913
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
England, 1509. Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, is dead; his successor, the seventeen-year-old Henry VIII, offers hope of renewal and reconciliation after the corruption and repression of the last years of his father's reign.The kingdom Henry inherits is not the familiar Tudor England of Protestantism and playwrights. It is still more than two decades away from the English Reformation, and ancient traditions persist: boy bishops, pilgrimages, Corpus Christi pageants, the jewel-decked shrine at Canterbury. So Great a Prince offers a fascinating portrait of a country at a crossroads between two powerful monarchs and between the worlds of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Historian Lauren Johnson tells the story of 1509 not just from the perspective of the young king and his court, but from the point of view of merchants, ploughmen, apprentices, laundresses, and foreign workers. She looks at these early Tudor lives through the rhythms of annual rituals, juxtaposing political events in Westminster and the palaces of southeast England with the religious, agrarian, and social events that punctuated the lives of the people of young Henry VIII's England.

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

Author: Ruth Goodman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1631491407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Selection An erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England, "Goodman's latest…is a revelation" (New York Times Book Review). 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.

Historic Heston

Author: Heston Blumenthal
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620402343
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 432

Book Description
The greatest British dishes, as reinvented by Heston Blumenthal, chef and proprietor of the three-Michelin-starred The Fat Duck—presented in a gloriously lavish package.