Culture Flashcards
1
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English renaissance
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- Exploration of new culture
- Science and mathematics improved
- New discoveries
- More disposable icome for the gentry
2
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Rise of the Gentry
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Three reasons
1. Tudors suspicous of nobility, excludes them from court
2. Dissoloution of monasteries left land to be built on
3. Increasing wealth due to trade and exploration
* Helped fuel the renaissance
3
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Fashion
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- Wealthy used money to buy trendy, expensive clothes
- Showed status
- Laws passed to contol what classes could wear what
4
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Architechture
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- Great rebuilding
- Hosted Liz on progresses
- Not designed for defense anymore
- Status symbol
- Influenced by Italian renaissance and not gothic anymore
5
Q
Theatres
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- Social hubs - business meetings
- Male actors only
Where you sat showed class:
1. The pit - smelly, noisy, open to the weather
2. Galleries - seats and have a roof
3. High gallery - cushion, above everyone, roof - Trapdoors - “the heavens” specisl effect
- Liz used it as proaganda for her and her goverment
- Distacted lower-class, stopped rebellion
- Censored moderate plays
6
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Books
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- John Foxe’s book of martyns demonised Mary I
- Doctor Faustaus - Marlowe
7
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Portraits
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- Expensive clothing and jewels
- Allegorical symbols
- Lace cuffs, colours, swords, daggers, gloves and pets
