Daily life in the age of Queen Elizabeth I | Tracy Borman on Elizabethan England

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  • Опубликовано: 14 янв 2025

Комментарии • 78

  • @sarapanzarella97
    @sarapanzarella97 День назад +18

    Very interesting to learn about her morning walks! Been listening to podcasts and books on Tudor history for 4 years straight and had never heard this! It probably helped her lifespan - walking is great for our health.

    • @historyextra
      @historyextra  16 часов назад +3

      Most likely! Nothing like a brisk walk, whether you're Queen or not 👑

  • @naomiweaver1855
    @naomiweaver1855 День назад +19

    What a treat! Thank you for your video! An interesting book I just finished called At Day’s Close is about the history of night in the early modern era. People (all) went to bed early (rush lights, tallow, bees wax candles were precious) and woke after about three to four hours. They spent upwards of two hours busy at tasks or thinking in bed or chatting with a bed or room mate. Then back to sleep for second sleep. The nights were full of life.

    • @Jettypilelegs
      @Jettypilelegs 8 часов назад +1

      I’ve been trying to remember this book’s title for bloody ages! Thank you

  • @luckylogger7594
    @luckylogger7594 13 часов назад +5

    Keep them coming. I can't get enough details about the Tudors. Elizabeth loved horse backriding and hunting also.

  • @mjc1242
    @mjc1242 День назад +13

    So instructive and interesting. Beautifully narrated.

  • @2007cgarza
    @2007cgarza 22 часа назад +14

    I'm hoping that in another 30 years, there are still people who are so interested and able to relay the same history. I was so fortunate to be able to see the MET exhibit in Manahttan last August, Sleeping Beauties and retiring garments, and when you mentioned body odor etc. on material, I shoot back to those sensory exhibits that were amazing.

    • @track1949
      @track1949 9 часов назад +1

      If we survive the next 30 years...
      In any case hopefully there will be people who will continue to be interested in this history.

  • @moniquedawn5252
    @moniquedawn5252 День назад +12

    Love Tudor history! Thank you !

  • @catevanslife
    @catevanslife 10 часов назад +6

    A brilliant video. I ❤ the social history of this period.

    • @didntlistendad
      @didntlistendad 3 часа назад

      You might enjoy Frances Yates’ writing. John Dee etc- the white magicians seeking all knowledge of Nature thus drawing closer to the divine. Knowing the author, so to speak, of the Book of Nature written by God. Interesting writings- ideas explored responsibly not pillaged & commercialised (no da Vinci code stuff 🙁)

  • @chillpoint2956
    @chillpoint2956 9 часов назад +5

    I like the word Lubberwort !

  • @OSM758
    @OSM758 День назад +35

    Alchemy being so popular with royalty and nobility is interesting considering that in the near future, the Salem witch trials would occur.

    • @catherineball5071
      @catherineball5071 День назад +18

      The Salem witch trials happened in America, not England, 90 years after Elizabeth's death
      There were much more significant and larger witch trials that happened in England much sooner after her death though

    • @RaRaRiaJ
      @RaRaRiaJ День назад +11

      Also, James I (VI) was obsessed with blaming everything on witches. I still think Salem is considered incredibly late for witch trials though, and was part of why it was so shocking

    • @Yandarval
      @Yandarval День назад +7

      @@RaRaRiaJ The witch obsession had been more or less over, in Europe, many decades before Salem. England's "Witchfinder-General" episode was three years in a small part of the country, in the 1640s. The 1640s and 50s were the height of the Puritan and Commonwealth periods in England.

    • @E.K.2003
      @E.K.2003 23 часа назад +8

      ​@catherineball5071 Witch trials actually started with King James the First in Scotland. Bill Reilly wrote Killing the Witches. He starts with the incident in Edinburgh, Scotland and from there goes across the pond with the Mayflower to America. Fascinating reading so far.

    • @geegnosis8888
      @geegnosis8888 18 часов назад

      USA must really tackle the bigots, nationalists and extremists in their populations.

  • @simonapascariu2243
    @simonapascariu2243 День назад +5

    Amazing, I am very impressed, thank you. So vivid and informative in each presented chapter.

  • @TheBungler76
    @TheBungler76 8 часов назад

    Love it! - really interesting!- looking forward to learning more about the tudors!

  • @amcguigan2389
    @amcguigan2389 4 часа назад

    Delightful lecture! Entertaining and enlightening! Thank you so much!

  • @greylilycalligraphy
    @greylilycalligraphy 6 часов назад

    Love this!! Thank you for sharing the video! I absolutely love the brooch you are wearing!

  • @koroba01
    @koroba01 7 часов назад

    Excellent video, love learning history. I enjoy your documentary work also.

  • @johnransom1146
    @johnransom1146 12 часов назад +8

    Didn’t they move the gems and pearls between dresses? They’d be taken off and restitched on another dress to save money and seem like you had endless money

  • @rdo1231
    @rdo1231 День назад +4

    lovely work!

  • @curiousman1672
    @curiousman1672 День назад +9

    Very interesting, but waayyyyyyyy too short.

  • @marygrummer9189
    @marygrummer9189 День назад +3

    Very interesting! Thanks for sharing😊

  • @eilsmile8732
    @eilsmile8732 6 часов назад

    It makes me love loungewear even more!

  • @CountessKitten
    @CountessKitten День назад +11

    Yes, Elizabeth seems rather rambunctious and spry to me! The way she went on with Leicester and Sir Walter and The Ill fated Earl of Essex, she cracks me up. I would have loved to have been a fly on her royal walls

    • @vanessamartz7596
      @vanessamartz7596 22 часа назад +1

      I now do not feel badly about my huge closet of clothes, shoes, jewelry, and purses.

    • @historyextra
      @historyextra  16 часов назад +2

      You'd have some fascinating insights for sure. 🪰

  • @JamesMilliganJr
    @JamesMilliganJr День назад +3

    Excellent!

  • @jilltagmorris
    @jilltagmorris День назад +3

    Thank you ❤😊❤

  • @Mermare
    @Mermare День назад +8

    We need to see your puppy! 😊

    • @ginac895
      @ginac895 День назад +3

      Yes please ❤

    • @historyextra
      @historyextra  20 часов назад +2

      Check out Tracy's Instagram for lots of cute photos!

  • @richardpearce1114
    @richardpearce1114 День назад +1

    Fascinating.

  • @jameschapman9375
    @jameschapman9375 День назад +13

    I've heard that Elizabeth loved candied violets? That she would eat them like popcorn!

    • @Mermare
      @Mermare День назад +6

      I also read that she thought sweet things would make her breath smell "sweeter". However, nothing could help the smell of her rotten teeth.

    • @jameschapman9375
      @jameschapman9375 День назад +7

      @Mermare she was hardly an outlier, however. Many nobles and royals throughout England and the continent had an insatiable appetite for sugar and no one had much of an idea about proper dental hygiene. Fluoride was still a long way off, unfortunately.

    • @gscasale7772
      @gscasale7772 День назад

      ​@@jameschapman9375... and if that lubberwort Kennedy gets placed in the new usa Administration , fluoride may be gone again. What a dunce.

    • @Mermare
      @Mermare День назад +2

      @@jameschapman9375 I didn't say she was an outlier. Where did you get that from my post?

  • @laurieb3703
    @laurieb3703 7 часов назад +2

    I always wonder what they would have thought of us. Our food our clothing etc. The fact that the poorest of us today (for the most part) live better than the Kings of the old days

  • @mesamies123
    @mesamies123 День назад +7

    One knows many a lubberwort! 😉

  • @craigkondelin6585
    @craigkondelin6585 50 минут назад

    Lubberwort,Lubberwort,Lubberwort. It's got a beat :)

  • @gonnabeayogi1445
    @gonnabeayogi1445 8 часов назад +2

    Imagine if all those wonderful dresses had survived …. ❤

    • @jamescharnock4579
      @jamescharnock4579 5 часов назад

      They did find one of her dresses a few years ago being used as an alter cloth at a church in a village where one of her Ladies lived.

    • @gonnabeayogi1445
      @gonnabeayogi1445 4 часа назад

      @ oh yes I’ve seen a video on that dress. I’ve seen her gloves before. Long long thin fingers in white kid skin. I think they were in the V&A but could be wrong. The V&A has some amazing clothing, I could gaze at each stitch for hours and hours. ☺️

  • @Aspasia2929
    @Aspasia2929 22 часа назад +2

    It is actually one of Elizabeth’s favorite courtiers, Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, the brilliant child prodigy writing under the pseudonym William Shake-Speare who added over 2000-3000 words to the English language. If you’re not familiar with the Oxfordian truth about who the true author of the work attributed to the man from Stratford there’s many great documentaries that provide compelling evidence. My favorite is “Nothing is Truer Truth” which is playing on Amazon Prime featuring Mark Rylance and Derek Jacobi, it will blow your mind!

  • @winiferskattebol9492
    @winiferskattebol9492 9 часов назад

    Perfect for the anniversary of her coronation.

  • @aliciaeakins2578
    @aliciaeakins2578 5 часов назад

    Am I crazy to think that Tracy looks an awful lot like some of the portraits of QE1? This was super interesting!

    • @aliciaeakins2578
      @aliciaeakins2578 5 часов назад

      Oh wow! I wrote my original comment about the resemblance before seeing the photos of Tracy in the gown.

  • @LM36556
    @LM36556 3 часа назад

    I literally just got done watching Full Metal Alchemist for the second time lol she would’ve liked that anime I think.😂

  • @NI4NI-y5f
    @NI4NI-y5f 16 часов назад +1

    I don't think 'Respect' is what I would develop for people who insisted on wearing the most uncomftorable clothes possible, merely for affect. I think that betrays a real underlying Sadism or worship of Suffering that's, well, aberrant. It is not the natural state of any creature to SEEK Suffering and worship of it is NOT a good example of any kind. Accepting that Suffering is A PART of Life is one thing, but to aquiesce to or purposefully impose it on the bodies of Others is...unethical, from my pov. But then, I'm a 20C-21stC person (and I fully embrace the era we are in, even now). What I DO respect about QE1, was that she was able to help protect the burgeoning Englightenment from the small, archaic minds of the religiously dogmatic and the forward-facing posture of philosopher-scientists from utterly destroying each other. She was able to give both the space they needed to feel safe, exist, and thrive. As you can see globally, even today in some countries with backwards governments incapable of handling modern stresses, that is one heckuva feat to pull off. I hope that same tradition continues because human minds EVOLVE, but NOT at the same rates so we need to have Patience with each other.

  • @Tam.I.am.
    @Tam.I.am. 23 часа назад +2

    I stopped the video to compare the herbalist's bookshelf to yours.

  • @vanessamartz7596
    @vanessamartz7596 22 часа назад +3

    Children always get their mother's face shape. Contemporary letters say that other than coloring, She looked like Anne Boleyn. I would like to see Anne based on Elizabeth's portraits.

  • @JunoDiovonaDemihof
    @JunoDiovonaDemihof 10 часов назад +1

    🤔 Elizabeth herself had absolutely horrible teeth, I wonder if introduction of sugar in England had to do with the beginning of absolutely deplorable dental hygiene of the English people…😢

  • @vanessamartz7596
    @vanessamartz7596 22 часа назад +1

    If only they had high density reactors, they could have made gold.

  • @vanessamartz7596
    @vanessamartz7596 22 часа назад

    I now do not feel badly about my huge closet of clothes, shoes, jewelry, and purses.

    • @historyextra
      @historyextra  16 часов назад

      It's when you start storing Elizabethan ruffs in there that you'll really have a problem. Tend to take up space.

  • @MsCValentiner
    @MsCValentiner День назад +3

    Who is in that cage behind you?

    • @eilsmile8732
      @eilsmile8732 6 часов назад

      It’s a fire guard!

    • @stephgreen3070
      @stephgreen3070 59 минут назад

      @@eilsmile8732it’s a wire crate. You can see the handle on the top there. I have one exactly like it for my dog.

  • @kevinwalsh1619
    @kevinwalsh1619 23 часа назад +3

    Elizabeth I wore an air filter around her neck. Elizabeth II knew that air filters were for cars.

  • @EagleRue
    @EagleRue День назад

    ruclips.net/video/yDVF_GTMCoY/видео.htmlsi=eOed8AX4S_tYbmzt

  • @craigkondelin6585
    @craigkondelin6585 53 минуты назад

    2025,.AD. Something New !

  • @rachelgates509
    @rachelgates509 День назад +1

    You forgot to mention that, at the bottom, were women!!!

    • @throughthewoods416
      @throughthewoods416 17 часов назад +1

      What? She very quickly refers to social class but not gender roles?

  • @generalcomments1239
    @generalcomments1239 12 часов назад

    Shakespeare didn't exist.

  • @Harley_Qwynn
    @Harley_Qwynn 5 часов назад

    In the future, will I also have come from an Elizabethan era?🤔🎭