Elizabeth - Section 4 Flashcards
(43 cards)
what were the home of the gentry like?
country houses with over 50 rooms
with glazed windows
Food and drink in Gentry houses
expensive feasts
Examples of exotic meats
swan, pheasants, fish such as salmon,
What did the gentry do for a living?
Did not work
How did the gentry earn their money
Renting out their lands
Homes of the middling sort
Around ten rooms and over two floors.
What was the diet of the middling sort like?
Afford to eat a good diet of meat, fruit and bread
Was the diets of the middling sort as good as those of the Gentry?
No
What were the jobs of the middling sort?
Merchants, Small business owners, independent owners
What were the homes like of the labouring poor?
Small one room houses with no chimney or glazed windows
what was the diet like for the labouring poor?
Bread, pottage
What did the labouring poor rely on when it came to food?
A good harvest
Jobs of the labouring poor?
Travelled to look for work on farms
What type of society was Elizabethan?
Patriarchal Society
Patriarchal Society?
Social system where men have more power than women
What played a central role in Family life?
Marriage
Divorce in Elizabethan England
Very difficult, people were encouraged to remarry if their partner died
Belief about same sex marriage in Church
Forbidden by the church
Children from which social group went to school?
Gentry
What age did gentry children go to school?
7
What gender went to school?
Boys
Work as a child in poorer families (labouring poor)
Started work as early as possible on farms
Poverty at the end of Elizabeth’s reign
Increased
How many people lived in poverty by the 1580s?
30%
