The Time Traveller's Guide To Elizabethan England

[poliphilo]

Ian Mortimer's Elizabethan England is all plague, famine, crime, cruelty, religious intolerance, misogyny and child abuse. I tumbled to what he was doing when he represented the however-many it-was compulsory saints days as something imposed on a groaning populace by the lordly church without mentioning that they also served as jolly holidays.  If you cherry-pick your facts and relentlessly accentuate the negative you can make any society seem hellish-  and that includes our own (God save you) even though we do possess the flush toilets and electric lights the Elizabethans suffered without.

Comments

[moth-wingthane.livejournal.com]

I didn't get to watch the programme yet but I have recorded it. I'm feeling as though I might be better off just deleting it.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Give it a whirl. I found it tendentious but, all the same, it told me things I didn't know.