Elizabeth society in the Age of Exploration, 1558-88 Flashcards
What did education did poor children receive?
No formal education so learned from the families, working on the land, or in the home to earn a wage for the family
What sort of education did well off boys receive?
- Petty schools, ages 4-8 (3 Rs)
- Grammar school, ages 8-14
What education did well off girls receive?
Dame schools or educated at home by mothers (3Rs, music, dancing)
What sort of education did noble boys receive?
- Private tutor until early teens (Latin, Greek, French, History)
- University (Oxbridge) from 14 or 15
- Went to Inns of Court in London to train as lawyers
What sort of education did noble girls receive?
- Private tutor until early teens
- Sent to noble household to complete their education
- Made social contacts and perfected the skills expected of them as a noble woman
What sports did the nobility play?
- Hunting
- Hawking
- Fishing
- Fencing
- Real tennis
What sports did working people play?
Football - could get very violent and had no rules
What spectator sports were there?
- Bear-baiting
- Cock-fighting
- Gambling
What was theatre like?
- Very popular with all classes
- New plays and purpose built theatres
- Protestantism led to development of new plays
Why did poverty and vagabondage increase?
- Population
- Food prices
- Sheep farming and enclosure meant less people were employed in farms
- People forced to move to cities for work
- Dutch Revolt affected trade
What were attitudes to the poor like?
- Some sympathy for impotent or deserving poor
- Able-bodied or idle poor treated more harshly
What was the aim of the Statute of Artificers 1563?
To collect poor relief money
What was the aim of the Vagabonds Act 1572?
To deter vagrancy
What was the aim of the Poor Relief Act 1576?
To help able bodied people find work
What effect did government action have on the poor?
- Some success but poverty remained a problem
- Laws recognised that unemployment was a problem that needed to be solved
