Education And Leisure Flashcards
Elizabethan education attitudes change
No national system of education
Change- protestants argued for literature, books less expensive, growth of trade meant people needed to read
Types of education
Private tutors
Parish schools
Grammar schools(charged fees)
Petty school(from peopels home)
University(oxford and cambridge)
Girls in education
No formal education for them- prvate tutors sometimes
Edcuation meant
Literacy imporved and new grammar schools mesnt poorer got to get edcucated
Noblilty passtimes
Hunting, fishing, bowls, fencing, tennis
Farmers, craftsmen and lowerclass activities
Football and wrestling
Watched sports
Baiting (animals fight to death)
Cock fighting
More fun activities
Literature and theatre(comedies funded by noblemen)
Music and dancing- lutes, harpisocords-upper and lower no dance together