Elizabeth - Society Flashcards
Describe how society was ordered in the Great Chain of Being.
At the top god in heaven ruled over the angels and on earth society reflected this order kings, churchmen, nobles, merchants, and peasants
Name 3 ways you could demonstrate your wealth in Elizabethan society.
Wear expensive clothes
Lots of jewellery
Owning lots of land
Why was the invention of the printing press so important?
Allowed publishing business to go. This allowed ideas and language to spread fast around Europe
List 4 ways that Hardwick Hall reflected Elizabethan fashions in house design.
More glass than was walls showed they were rich
Have chimneys
Demonstrated new concepts of domestic architecture
Big hallways at entrance
How much did the population of England grow during Elizabeth’s reign?
30% - from around 3mil to 4mil
Where in London was the Globe theatre built? Why?
Close to south bank of Thames. To avoid the strict regulations of london at the time
Name 2 brutal pastimes enjoyed by the Elizabethans.
Blood sports
Cruel sports
How did the Globe theatre reflect the Great Chain of Being?
It had the upper class and nobility higher up in the theatre and the groundlings who had to pay a penny to stand and watch from the floor
What was the role of a theatre’s patron?
A wealthy and powerful individual who protected actors by giving them money or jobs
Why did the Lord Mayor disapprove of the Globe theatre?
He believed it spread immoral ideas, encouraged depraved behaviour and contribute to outbreaks of the plague
Name 2 ways that Shakespeare’s plays reflected the concerns of Elizabethan people.
Questioning the social order
Plays were about conflict of good and evil inhumanity of man which supported the views of immoral ideas
What did Drake do between 1577 and 1580?
Circumnavigated the world
What did Drake return with and what did Elizabeth make him?
He came back with lots of Spanish gold stolen from their ships and Elizabeth awarded drake a knight hood in 1581 on his ship the golden hind
Who was given Royal permission to explore the Americas and what colony did he establish?
Francis drake
Nova Albion - new Britain
Name 3 inventions which made the voyages of discovery possible.
Lateen sails
The astrolabe
Magnetic compass