A Tudor Christmas
$40.56
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2018
Summary
A Tudor Christmas: Feasting, Revelry, and Merrymaking
Christmas in Tudor times was a period of feasting, revelry, and merrymaking ‘to drive the cold winter away’. A carnival atmosphere presided at court, with a twelve-day-long festival of entertainments, pageants, theatre productions, and ‘disguisings’, when even the king and queen dressed up in costume to fool their courtiers. Throughout the festive season, all ranks of subjects were freed for a short time from everyday cares to in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787330641 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787330648 |
| Author: | Alison Weir, Siobhan Clarke |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 186mm x 135mm x 20mm |
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[A] jewel of a book.
[A] jewel of a book. – Tracy Borman * BBC History Magazine, Books of the Year *My favourite fireside read on the run-up to Yule… From food and festivities to religion and the origins of customs, this book has it all * Northern Soul, Christmas Gift Guide 2023 *
About The Author
Alison Weir
Alison Weir is one of Britain’s top-selling historians. She is the author of numerous works of history and historical fiction, specialising in the medieval and Tudor periods.
Siobhan Clarke has worked as a lecturer and guide for Historic Royal Palaces for seventeen years, writing tours and lectures on Hampton Court Palace, the Tower of London and the Banqueting House, Whitehall Palace.
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