![]() ![]() On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English. She relies on primary sources and archaeological evidence and when she has to fill in the blanks, she fills in the blanks based on what she knows, but ultimately she makes it clear that it is up to the reader to decide what he or she believes is the likeliest possibility of the subject she just addressed. How to Be a Tudor audiobook, by Ruth Goodman. Richly descriptive, beautifully written and highly entertaining, Ruth Goodman does what you’d expect a good historian and someone who’s clearly passionate about her work would do. This is a must have for every history enthusiast and aspiring historian. ![]() And we can hardly blame fans who do because there isn’t a lot of focus on important factors that dominated people’s lives such as identity, religion, social status, and region. One thing that Ruth Goodman also excels at is tearing down through the myths that people still buy into when they think of the Tudor era. ![]() Ruth Goodman weaves a wonderful tale of kings, queens, peasants, artisans, and other groups from the late fifteenth, sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, illustrating how people’s views on sex, religion, childbirth, education and other customs varied, depending on the region they lived and -for th ose in the middle and at the bottom- how different regimes affected their lifestyle.Īs such, issues such as work, immigration, cleanliness, food and clothing are also addressed. ![]()
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