Table of Contents:
“…. -- Cosmetics -- Teeth -- Food and Drink -- The markets -- Other food shops -- Street sellers -- Fish days -- Cooking and recipes -- Meals -- Table manners -- Drink -- Eating out -- Sex, Marriage, Family Life and Death -- Sex outside marriage -- Marriage -- Servants -- Childbirth -- Childhood and manners -- Death and funerals -- Education -- The first years -- Schools -- Christ's Hospital -- Apprenticeship -- The Inns of Court -- Further education -- Private tuition and the foreign tour -- Amusements -- Home entertainment -- Free shows -- Bear baiting, bull baiting and cock fighting -- Theatre-going -- Sport -- The lottery -- Inns and taverns -- Recreational drugs -- Networks and Boxes -- The livery companies -- Parishes -- Wards -- Servitors and retainers -- Crime, Punishment and the Law -- The underworld -- Criminal law enforcement --
Minor offences -- More serious punishments -- The civil law -- Statutes, proclamations and the Custom of London -- The Poor -- The welfare system -- Emergencies and single payments -- Begging licences -- Private charities -- The sick poor -- Religion, Superstition, Witchcraft and Magic -- The Elizabethan religious settlement -- Dissidents -- Continuity -- The sermons at Paul's Cross -- Superstition -- Witchcraft and magic -- Words and Pronunciation -- Currency, Wages and Prices -- An Elizabethan Invoice.…”
Call Number: DA680 .P53 2004
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