Daily Life in Elizabethan England by Forgeng Jeffrey L

Author:Forgeng, Jeffrey L. [Forgeng, Jeffrey L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780313365607
Amazon: 0313365601
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2009-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. For incomes and wages, see Sir John Harington, Nugae Antiquae (London: Vernor and Hood, 1804); William Harrison, Description of England [1587] (Ithaca, NY: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1968), bk. 2, chap. 5; Paul L. Hughes and James F. Larkin, Tudor Royal Proclamations (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1964), 3.39–41; R. H. Tawney and Eileen Power, Tudor Economic Documents (London: Longmans, 1924); D. M. Palliser, The Age of Elizabeth (London and New York: Longman, 1992), 118; M. St. Clare Byrne, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country (London: Methuen, 1950), 115; Margaret Spufford, Contrasting Communities (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974), 52.

2. For prices, see Fynes Moryson, An Itinerary [1617], The English Experience 387 (Amsterdam and New York: Da Capo Press, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971), III.ii.62, III.iii.151; Harrison, Description, bk. 3, chap. 16; Hughes and Larkin, Proclamations, 3.21, 39–41; James E. Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882); Percy Macquoid, “The Home,” in Shakespeare’s England: An Account of the Life and Manners of His Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916) , 2.136–37, 141; Palliser, Age of Elizabeth, 134; Marjorie Plant, The English Book Trade (London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1939), 220, 241; Jo McMurtry, Understanding Shakespeare’s England (Hamden, CT: Archon, 1989), 73. The daily cost of food given in this table is based on the amount of money allowed to workers for their daily food according to the official rates. The price of standard-quality bread was fixed; only the weight changed. Note that some of these were the officially decreed prices; the real prices could be rather higher, depending on the state of the economy.

3. Palliser, Age of Elizabeth, 129.

4. MacQuoid, “The Home,” 2.120–22.

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5. On medicine, see Margaret Pelling, “Medicine and Sanitation,” in William Shakespeare: His World, His Works, His Influence. Vol. 1: His World, ed. John F.

Andrews (New York: Scribner, 1985), 75–84; C. Webster, Health, Medicine, and Mortality in Sixteenth-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979); Alban H. G. Doran, “Medicine,” in Shakespeare’s England. An Account of the Life and Manners of His Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916), 1.413–43.

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