Lifestyles of the rich and poor Flashcards
How was the hierarchy in Elizabethan England organised?
(Top to bottom)
The monarch
Nobles and Lords
Gentry
Wealthy merchants and professionals
Yeomen and Tenant farmers
Cottagers and skilled artisans
Seasonal workers and unemployed
Who were the nobles?
Owned large areas of land
Included dukes, barons or earls
Who were the gentry?
Landowners
Less wealthy than nobles
Included knights, squires, gentlemen and gentlewomen
Who are wealthy merchants?
Successful sellers and business people
Who are wealthy merchants?
Successful sellers and business people
Who are ‘professionals’?
Emerging middle class
Worked less labour intensive jobs
Like lawyers, physicians, school teachers
Who were yeomen?
Owned their own houses with farms
Who were cottagers?
Lived in small cottages
Who were artisans?
Had a trade such as craft
Main features of houses of the rich
Built in the shape of E or H
Large windows to show wealth
Built with defensive structures outside like towers
Had a grand hall and above the long gallery
Gardens for leisure
Servants quarters
What was the grand hall?
Used as the servants dining room or hosted formal events
What was the Long gallery?
A place above the grand hall
A very wide corridor
For the owners to exercise, play music or for children to play
What did the rich women wear?
Ruffs (frilly collars)
Cape of cold
Long gown with a petticoat and hoops
Leather shoes and stockings
Lots of jewellery
What did the rich men wear?
Stiffened ruffle (frilly collar)
Jerkin (jacket)
Doublet (shirt)
Cape if leaving
Stockings and leather shoes
Trunk hose (breeches)
What were the rich’s clothes made out of?
Silk, linen, velvet, satin, leather and cloth
Expensive materials that had to have been exported thus showed their wealth
Households of the rich
Wives would stay home and supervise servants
Would make bread, ale, soap, candles and jams
Listen to music from hired bands
Education of the rich sons
Would be tutored at home
Languages (French, Latin or Greek)
Social etiquette
Hunting
Hawking
Education of the rich’s daughters
Tutored at home by governesses
Learn how to run a household
Features of houses of the gentry
Large manors
Servants quarters
Lots of land for farming
Made out of stone and brick (modernised)
Fashion of the gentry
Very similar to their social superiors (nobles)
But less expensive materials
Education of the gentry
Sons would go to private schools
Or university and learnt music, theology, maths etc