September 2011
11 posts
On gifts...
There is, as such, no research I have found which indicates gifts were exchanged on birthdays. One source records:
I have never run across any evidence of the giving of gifts on a person’s birthday. I’ve looked through a very large number of jewelry inventories over the years, for example, and I’ve found lots of items of jewelry being given or received as gifts at the New...
Forms of Address (briefly...)
Everyone is just about as clear as mud on the manner of forms of address in Elizabethan England. Well, here’s a quick guide:
(from Life in Elizabethan England: a compendium of common knowledge, mostly. Edited for publication here.)
Even small children know how to address their social superiors.
Not every knight is a lord; not every lord is a knight. It is best not to say My Lord to...
On Music, and the Lute…
The earliest...
On Household Management and Domestic Details for...
Staffing a Great Household
from Life in Elizabethan England: a compendium of common knowledge. Edited for publication here.
Read the complete text of Anthony Maria Browne’s Book of Orders and Rules at Managing a Noble Household: A Book of Orders and Rules, 1595.
An Ambassadorial Household: 1604
In 1604 the Earl of Hertford’s embassy to Brussels included: 20 Knights, 2 barons, and 7...
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Of Trunks, and Chests, and, well, Furniture...
Elizabethan Baggage
(Original text taken from Eurêka:Luggage. )
Budget Bag or wallet.
Bung Purse, a pocket.
Buy Purse.
Cap-case Traveling bag.
Dosser Basket.
Penner Leather belt pouch designed to carry pens, penknife and inks.
Trussing Coffer Clothes-chest
Chests and Cupboards
(Originally Published Early 1900’s, edited for publication here. Original text taken from Old & Sold...
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A venture into the staircase...and some...
The Early Jacobean Period
( Originally Published Early 1900’s, edited for publication here. Original text taken from Old & Sold Antiques Auction & Marketplace. )
1600-1620
THERE was a very close affinity between the Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods, and the two really form one continuous style in which the profusion and over-elaboration of the former period became modified...
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Of closets, chambers, and other such important...
From Life in Elizabethan England: a compendium of common knowledge.
The chamber or bedchamber is a very public room in a great house; you receive guests there, play cards or chess, and even dine intimately there with a few close friends. The best bedchamber in the house is the great chamber. If you want some actual privacy, you retire to your wardrobe or closet — a small, private room...
