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Chaucer's People by Liza Picard
$32.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
In CHAUCER'S PEOPLE, Liza Picard guides us through the tumultuous world of the late fourteenth century in an ingenious, informative and entertaining way. Through the assorted cast of pilgrims Chaucer selected for THE CANTERBURY TALES, Picard brings medieval social history to life and uncovers the detail ...Show more
Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in the Middle Ages by Liza Picard
$24.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
'A holiday in the complex, joyful, indelicate medieval world'John Higgs, author of Watling Street Chaucer's People is an absorbing and revealing guide to the Middle Ages, populated with Chaucer's pilgrims from The Canterbury Tales. These are lives spent at the pedal of a loom, maintaining the ledgers o ...Show more
Dr Johnson's London : Life in London 1740-1770 by Liza Picard
$29.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics
Elizabeth's London: Everyday life in Elizabethan London by Liza Picard
$24.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics
Restoration London and Dr.Johnson's London, this book is the result of the author's passionate interest in the practical details of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived - so often ignored in conventional history books. The book begins with the River Thames, which - from its surl ...Show more
Restoration London by Liza Picard
$24.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics
Making use of every possible contemporary source - diaries, memoirs, advice books, government papers, almanacs, even the Register of Patents - Liza Picard presents an enthralling picture of how life in London was really lived in the 1600s: the houses and streets, gardens and parks, cooking, clothes and ...Show more
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