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Historical Daily Life in Elizabethan England by Jeffrey L. Singman $45 / Greenwood Press / 1995 Had you lived in 16th century England, what would you have done to earn your bread? You probably imagined yourself as a member of the aristocracy, wearing fine clothes and sporting a rapier, supping from trenchers of meat and living in a Tudor-style manor house. Such a vision is logical because most history books, novels and movies usually concentrate on the upper crust of society. In point of fact, the affluent represented only a small portion of the contemporary English population, and most people led radically different lives. Daily Life, the latest addition to the Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History series, accurately shows how the vast majority of people lived, ate, dwelled, what they did for a living, what they believed in, and how they spent their leisure time. This fine work does not neglect the upper classes; rather, it relegates them to their appropriate place in an overall view of Elizabethan society. One of the most interesting aspects of this volume is that it is a product of the living history movement. Thus, Daily Life is not just a reference work, it is a handbook, a how-to guide to life during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Indeed, it is in part a revision of the Elizabethan Handbook, a manual for practicing living history produced by the Tabard Inn Society of the University of Toronto. —Capt. Mikal Warchola

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