The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

This social history addresses the reader as a visitor to England in the reign of Elizabeth I and explains how to eat, travel, worship, dress, and keep out of legal trouble. Mortimer covers ranks from vagrant to courtier, the look of towns and countryside, disease, entertainment, and the parish as the unit of daily life. There is no single biographical hero. The book is a handbook-style reconstruction of ordinary conditions, not a life of the queen and not a novel of court intrigue.

Bound in black printed and gilt blocked grey/green buckram.