How to Live like a Renaissance Princess


Yearn in your ivory castle

Drink sweet wine, eat homemade bread and berries

Read, read, read & get lost in it

Play card or dice games, simple games

Go wander, not a walk a wander. Wander around the meadows, the hills, the forest, the wilderness. 

Collect wild flowers, plants, pretty stones, etc.

Walk around with your ladies, discuss silly or deep matters with your friends

Have high tea including little sweet treats

Yearn (outside, inside, anywhere)

Let one of your closest maids intimately braid your hair

Fight your parents about your arranged marriage to a handsome French marquis

Go to a ball (the club?) all dressed up

Dance dance dance, so beautifully like a wisp, like a faerie

Ride in the back of a car(riage) and enjoy the sights

Sleep in, sleep early

Watch the weekly burning of condemned heretics from your balcony!

Bask in the sun

People-watch

Admire yourself in the reflection of a sword

Speak with your subjects

Enjoy the company of animals (domesticated or not)... bonus: speak/sing to them

Write poetry, write fairytales, write songs, etc. 

Engage in some casual (exhilarating) gossip 

Have a long herbal bath

Live by candlelight

Appreciate the setting sun and the rising dawn

Use bells to sound for meals or at special times

Listen to renaissance music, lyre, harpsichord, baroque church hymns if you must

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