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Elizabethan Society - Education And Leisure Flashcards

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What was the education you received aimed to prepare you for?

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Life you are expected to lead on social hierarchy

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What did education focus on?

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Practical skills

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How many children and girls got formal education?

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Small number of children and very few girls

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What did humanists believe?

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Learning was important such as studying maths to get a better view of the world

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What did protestants encourage in education?

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Reading the bible in own language, developing relationship with God and improving literacy

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6
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When did basic education become mire important but was there significant developments?

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With business and trade developments, not significant

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What did the children of the nobility learn in school?

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Same subjects Elizabeth was good at such as Philosophy and Theology

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What did upper class women learn in school?

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Expected skills such as music and needlework

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9
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How were upper class-women educated?

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Tutored at home, separate from brothers, at around 7

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What were boys taught in school?

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Skills fit for men such as swimming and archery

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11
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Where were boys often sent to finish education?

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Another noble’s household

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Why would boys be sent to other noble’s household to finish education?

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So the eldest son could inherit fathers’ title and learn to become a future nobleman

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Why did girls sometimes move to another noble family?

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To make useful contacts and perfects skills of a noble woman

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What type of schoos were the greatest development?

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Grammar schools

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How many grammar schools were founded between 1560-70?

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72, more than ever

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Who were grammar schools set up for?

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Bright boys, largely coming from sons of middling sorts (wealthy)

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17
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Where were girls educated and why?

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At home by mothers to prepare for running household

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18
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What were fees for grammar schools based on?

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Property

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How could lower class boys get into grammar schools?

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If they showed promise they wouldn’t have to pay and their places would be funded by people who left money in their will to provide education for poorer

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When were the only holidays at grammar schools?

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Easter and Christmas

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How long were grammar school days and what was the focus?

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10 hours a day, focused on Latin

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What did boys study at grammar schools?

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Ancient historians and philosophers such as Aristotle and had time for archery and chess

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What was there an emphasis on doing in grammar schools?

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Memorising larger texts and focusing on morals and manners

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Why was debating important in grammar schools?

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Public speaking was essential to a well-educated gentleman.

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What were the school days at grammar schools?

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Monday-Saturday

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How did boys contribute to reporting misbehaviour in and out of school?

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Two boys made to monitor and report misbehaviour

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27
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What was punishment for very naughty boys?

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Immediate

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28
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What were possible punishments at grammar schools?

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Kept at break, exclusion, expellation after warning to parents, corporal punishment (caning)

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What school curriculum did Merchants and Craftsmen have?

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Practical academic subjects such as English and Arithmetic, reflecting what economy needed but still preparing for life expected to lead

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What education was there for children of skilled yeomen and craftsmen?

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Grammar schools however mostly apprenticeships to learn to run family businnes or farm.

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What was a skillee craftsman/yeomen’s child apprenticeship based on?

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How valuable the child was to the family business at home

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32
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What were petty schools?

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Schools run in a teachers home

33
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Where did most begin education if they could afford it?

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Petty schools

34
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What was girls equivalent of Petty schools

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Dame schools

35
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What would people in Petty school’s learn and were punishments bad?

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English and arithmetic and there were harsh punishments

36
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Where would bright/well-off petty school students go off to?

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Grammar schools

37
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Why didn’t most Elizabethans have great education?

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Most were farmers/labourers

38
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Why did children of labourers and poor children only learn what was needed from families?

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Needed to contribute to family income from an early age

39
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Who many men and women were literate in Elizabethan England?

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30% men, 10% women

40
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Which gender did better in education?

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Men

41
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Who promoted idea of women needing good education?

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Thinkers and writers

42
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Why did the roles of men and women stay the same in education?

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The cost of family income was lowering from children not working

43
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Why was a little education good for boys?

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Could help find a better job

44
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What were the two universities?

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Oxford and Cambridge

45
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What age would you start university and what would study?

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14/15, study geomery, medicine, law

46
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What was highest qualification at universities?

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Doctorate

47
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When did Elizabeth found Jesus College in Oxford and who for?

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1571 for Welsh boys

48
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Which clergymen needed more education?

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Proestant clergymen

49
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Who specifically trained lawyers?

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Inns of Court in London

50
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What determined which sports and leisure you could do?

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Social class and gender

51
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What sports did nobility and gentry do?

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Fencing, real tennis, fishing (men and women)

52
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What sports did all classes play but how were they played differently?

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All did wrestling, but noblemen wrestled privately and bet to watch lower class wrestle in public

53
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Who were the working people of the social hierarchy?

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Crfastmen, farmers and labourers

54
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What did working people play?

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Football

55
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How was football extremely dangerous?

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No rules against picking up ball, number of players, tripping up and size of the pitch. Some games played in the street

56
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What were large sums often spent on in spectator sports?

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Gambling outcomes

57
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How was baiting a spectator sport?

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Was when a bear was chained to a post, and a dog unleashed against it
Bear had short teeth so didn’t bite dogs but many dogs died as bear lashed claws. Had special arenas in London for all classes. Bull baiting also popular

58
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Why did Elizabethans make sure bears didn’t die in baiting?

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Was expensive

59
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What was cock fighting?

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Metal spur attached to cockerels

60
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Who enjoyed cock fighting but who was against it?

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All classes enjoyed, but puritans against as the animals were being mistreated and the fights took place on Sunday (holy day)

61
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What were pastimes?

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Literature - most popular form of creative writing was poetry and plays

62
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What leisure was undergoing a revolution in Elizabeth’s reign?

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Theatre

63
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What pastimes did the Queen write?

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Poetry

64
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Why did theatre develop?

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Because of protestantism

65
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What type of plays were most common at start of Elizabeth’s reign?

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Mystery plays - brought bible stories to life. Saints were an important part of Catholicismand these plays kept memories in public imagination

66
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What type of plays did Elizabeth stop?

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Mystery plays

67
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What other type of plays were popular?

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Secular plays, unknown ending. Comedies

68
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Who were theatre companies funded by?

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Nobility

69
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What was Earl Of Leicester’s theatre company called?

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Leicester’s men

70
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What new theatres were built and example?

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Purpose-built theatres such as the Rose in 1587

71
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Who were theatres popular with?

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All classes

72
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Who could act in theatres?

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Men

73
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How many would queue to watch theatre?

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2000

74
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How much did it cost to go to theatre?

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1p for the pit in front of stage. Seats very expensive

75
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What instruments did many people play?

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Lutes and harpsichords

76
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What instruments were cheaper for lower classes?

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Bagpipes and fiddles

77
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How was music listened to by lower class compared to wealthy families?

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Lower class: at fairs and markets
Wealthy families: paid male musicians to play during meals

78
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What was music often composed for?

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Accompaniment to new plays

79
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Dancing was popular. What did it mix and not mix?

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Mixed gender but not classes

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