Golden Age

Question 1

Renaissance influenced by

Answer 1

Humanism in Europe

Question 2

Who did well?

Answer 2

Artists, builders, musicians, writers

Question 3

Printing press

Answer 3

New ideas

Greater speed

Question 4

School

Answer 4

New grammar schools and unis

Curriculum broadened

Question 5

‘Chap books’

Answer 5

Affordable stories told by street peddlers

Question 6

Musicians

Answer 6

• Orlando Gibbons
• Thomas Tallis
• William Byrd

Question 7

Nicholas Hilliard

Answer 7

Artist

Miniature portraits of leading personalities

Question 8

John Dee

Answer 8

Mathematician

Astrologer

Question 9

John Napier

Answer 9

Discovered logarithms

Question 10

Historians

Answer 10

William Camden

Richard Hakluyt

Question 11

Francis bacon

Answer 11

Experiments were needed to test scientific theories

Question 12

William Gilbert

Answer 12

Blood circulation

Question 13

William Gilbert

Answer 13

Queen’s doctor

Experimented with electricity

Question 14

Gentry

Answer 14

Not manual labour
Not nobility
Wealthy

Question 15

Suspicion of old nobility

Answer 15

Nobles were marginalised
Very few titles granted, government excluded from
Vacuum

Question 16

Dissolution of the monasteries

Answer 16

Owned a quarter of all land

More land available to buy

Question 17

Increasing wealth

Answer 17

Growth in trade and exploration
Population growth
Rising prices
Enclosure

Question 18

Gentry sponsored

Answer 18

Architectural, artistic, intellectual and literary endeavours

Question 19

Fashion was

Answer 19

Imprwtnt stafus shboo

Question 20

Statutes of Apparel

Answer 20

Sumptuary laws
1574
Controlled clothes people were allowed to wear based on their social rank

Question 21

Male fashion

Answer 21

• doublet (silk/satin)
• woollen/silk stockings
• trunk-hose
• jerkin
• ruff
• shoes (leather with cork soles)
• hat
• cloak
• sword
• beard

Question 22

Female fashion

Answer 22

• Farthingale
• ruff (lace collar)
• under gown (silk or satin)
• gown (satin or velvet)
• over gown
• dyed hair with false hair piled on top heavy white make up (lead, poisonous)
• blackened teeth
• shoes
• a small hat

Question 23

Great rebuilding

Answer 23

Architectural boom

Question 24

New buildings

Answer 24

• extravagant country houses built to reflect wealth
• built to impress and host Bess
• no longer needed defensive features (moats, drawbridges)- decorative gardens planted
• built of stone or brick

Question 25

Robert Smythson

Answer 25

Leading architect

Designed Longleat House in Wiltshire and Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire

Question 26

Design

Answer 26

• not gothic
• renaissance - Florence
• focussed on symmetry and size
• intricate chimney stacks
• mullioned windows (with leaded glass)
• wattle-and-daub (Speke Hall, Churche’s Mansion)
• bedroom upstairs
• great hall no longer popular
• long gallery used on upper floor to entertain and display art collections
• still no corridors, separate rooms had windows and fireplaces
• decorative plasterwork ceilings, oak-panelled walls, fireplaces, tapestries and libraries

Question 27

Before her reign

Answer 27

No theatres
Mystery and miracle plays based on bible stories and lives of saints - performed on temporary platforms in market squares and inn yards

Question 28

Groups of actors

Answer 28

Toured the country
Disliked - especially by puritans because of their ancient roman influences. 1580- earthquake- gods anger
Threat to law and order
Not respectable - no more than beggars

Question 29

Cult of Elizabeth

Answer 29

• as a result of visual and literary propaganda
• the faerie queen by Edmund Spenser - allegorical epic poem (Gloriana) - she have him a £50 pension per year for life
• queen on coins
• 1570s courtiers flattered her with pics to advance their own careers
• expensive clothing and jewels, allegorical symbols