Elizabethan England T2 Flashcards
The long gallery
Entire length of the house, framed by windows and or fireplaces
Function lf Long gallery
Entertainment, music, dancing, exercise, playing games
Fashionable noblemen
Wore shirt, leather shoes, stockings, outfits completed with jewellery and a satin and velvet cloak and hat
Rich young men
Tutored at home, social etiquette was important and was learning hawking, fencing and dancing
Fashionable noble ladies
Wore a petticoat, a gown, stockings and ruff, wide sleeves, bracelets etc
Rich young ladies learnt
Learnt how to supervise the daily running of household
Gentry
Aimed to copy the lifestyles of the rich, just not on as grand scale
Homes of gentry
Rented out large areas of land to tenant farmers for regualr income
Fashion of gentry
Taken seriously and they copied the rich though not with expensive gold and silver threads
Education of gentry
Sons went to grammar school to learn greek and latin
Young gentry men learnt
Become perfect gentlemen, hunting, fencing, dancing and good table manners
Homes of poor
Typical cottage, had one room and often family shared with animals
Poor had
Few possessions and furniture
Working day of poor
Long 12 hour day
Fashion of poor
Basic leather shoes, jacket, waistcoat,
Education of poor
Little to none
Wandering poor called ‘ ‘ who spread
Sturdy beggars who spread disease across towns
Examples of wandering poor
Hooker, dummerer
Government recognised
Poverty and vagrancy was a national problem
Causes of poverty
Rising population, inflation, bad harvests
What was act when work was found for able bodied and children learnt to trade, and when?
1601 Act for relief of the poor
