Living Like a Tudor by Amy Licence

Author:Amy Licence
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2021-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

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The Tudors’ was a predominantly visual culture, from art and dress, to architecture and objects, spectacle and theatre, and the printed and written word. The look of things mattered in an aesthetic sense, but beauty was rarely appreciated out of context, for its own sake. Visual ornament was a sign of worth, usually in terms of social standing, and the lack of external clues was interpreted as a lack of substance.

The discovery of the New World and the explosion in printed material made available new bodies of knowledge to those Tudors able to access them. Yet this is not to suggest the Tudor era was an entirely surface or superficial culture. It was evidently a time when boundaries were being challenged and new identities explored. The evidence shows us a paradox of contrary impulses at the heart of Tudor life: the desire to climb the scale of rigid hierarchy and the will to avoid, escape and subvert such a structure. Within their wider social identities, Tudor men and women used the visual world to engage in acts of self-fashioning.

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