Elizabethan Era 1485-1603 Late 15th and early 17th century

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Elizabethan Era1485-1603Late 15th and early
17th century
Quiz Question

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Elizabeth I
Quiz Question

• Queen Elizabeth I ruled over England during this
  time.
• Much of Elizabeths success was in balancing the
  interests of the Puritans and the Catholics. She
  managed to offend neither to a large extent.

• England was also well-off compared to the other
  nations of Europe.
• Queen Elizabeth started her reign at the age of
  25.
• Her leadership allowed England to prosper. She
  changed the country from backwards to confident.
  She grew the nation and increased the navy that
  protected England throughout the Renaissance.

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Fashions/Clothing

• At the beginning of this
• period, ladies gowns were
• modest. They had ruffled
• sleeves (symbolizing upper
• class), and a V-shaped
• waist. The dresses were
• made to show of small
• waists and square
• shoulders. Later, the ruffled
• sleeves were turned to tight
• sleeves, and the V-shaped
• waist transformed into a
• straight waist.

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Fashions/Clothing

• Womens hair was always swept up, either in a
  snood (a gathered bag in the back, covering the
  hair), or in a popular heart-shaped style, which
  from the front looks like to little cones
  sticking out from either side of your hair. Queen
  Elizabeth wore this hairstyle for many of her
  portraits.

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Fashions/Clothing

• Men wore vest-like shirts called jerkins, and
  knee length pants that puffed out. Nobles wore
  fine leather shoes and either a velvet hat, silk
  hat, a tall feathery hat, or a tall fabric hat.
  Later on, the fashion was to wear long, billowing
  cloaks fastened with a pendant of chain. The hats
  changed to beaver hats or hats with a plume,
  feather, sticking out jauntily on one side. Silk
  stockings were added to the pants.

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Working Class Clothing
Breeches
Kerchief
Chemise
Kirtle
Apron
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Working Class Clothing
Bodice
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Working Class Clothing
Jerkin
Doublet
Breeches
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Working Class Clothing
Parlet Kirtle
Headdress Parlet
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Farthingale structures used under to support the
skirts into the desired shape
Quiz Question
Mens Shoes
Womens Shoes
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The Elizabethan view of pure beauty was a woman
with light hair and a snow white complexion
complimented with red cheeks and lips.
Quiz Question
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V-shaped waist
V-shaped waist
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Clothes were designed with a layered approach
requiring assistance in dressing from servants.
Upper class fashions were tight, hot and
uncomfortable.
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Aristocrats
Deep figure-of-eight ruff
Cartwheel ruff with lace
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Aristocrats
Capotain tall grey hat with a feather
Cloak
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Aristocrats
Livery Collar heavy chain, usually of gold, worn
as political position.
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Childrens ClothingChildren had to wear the
same clothes as adults.
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Crime and Punishment
Quiz Question

• People were shamed publicly in front of large
  crowds.
• Some punishments were done by the crowds. For
  example, the picture to the left people would
  walk by and spit on the prisoner.
• Punishments were severe and often meant death for
  the prisoner.

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Health

• England during the Elizabethan Era did not give
  its people a high standard of health. Various
  diseases and food problems emerged which made
  life difficult for them.

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Health

• The serious lack of sanitation in Elizabethan
  England, especially in big cities, gave rise to
  many diseases endangering the lives of the people
  in England. Streets were filled with rotting
  garbage, sewers were blocked and rivers were
  contaminated by domestic waste. Epidemic
  diseases became increasingly common due to the
  growth of pests such as rats, fleas and lice, and
  were especially prevalent among children due to
  their high susceptibility to diseases.

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Health

• Treatment
• Advanced medicine did not exist back in the 16th
  century, therefore people sought for basic
  remedies to various illnesses usually by making
  their own medicine and potions using herbs and
  plants. Most people also preferred home medicine
  and household remedy as they were much cheaper
  than seeing doctors and physicians.

Quiz Question

• People also tried to treat diseases using methods
  based on their superstitious beliefs. For
  example, some believed that the use of magic and
  gemstones could cure mental illnesses and
  emotional discomfort. Astrology was used by
  doctors to heal their patients.

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Health

• The average lifespan of an adult male was 47
  years, while the life expectancy of people in
  London was 35 years for the richer ones, and only
  25 years for the less affluent ones. Death in
  infancy or early childhood was common. Also,
  about 40 of the people died before their middle
  teenage years.

• An appointment with a qualified doctor would cost
  one gold coin, equivalent to 10 shillings Using
  the retail price index, 10 shillings from 1560 is
  worth 1346.52 in 2006, which was very expensive
  under common standards during the 16th century
  and was therefore almost entirely exclusive to
  the royalty, nobles and the rich.

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Health
Food the Poor Ate
Food the Wealthy Ate

• coarse bread of barley or rye (largest portion of
  the diet)
• fish
• cheese
• vegetables.

• fine white bread
• the rich considered food from the ground as lowly
  (carrots, potatoes, etc.)
• beef
• pork
• lamb
• fowl
• salmon
• eel
• shellfish.

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Daily Life
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Entertainment/Hobbies

• There were many different types of Elizabethan
  sports and entertainment
• Feasts 
• A large, elaborately prepared meal, usually for
  many persons and often accompanied by court
  entertainment. Often celebrated religious
  festivals
• Banquets 
• A ceremonial dinner honouring a particular guest
• Fairs 
• The Annual Summer Fair was often a bawdy affair
• Plays 
• Started as plays enacted in town squares followed
  by the actors using the courtyards of taverns or
  inns (referred to as Inn-yards) followed by the
  first theatres (great open air amphitheatres
  built in the same style as the Roman Coliseum)
  and then the introduction of indoor theatres
  called Playhouses
• Mystery Plays 
• Re-enactment of stories from the Bible
• Festivals 
• Celebrating Church festivals

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Entertainment/Hobbies

• Jousts / Tournaments 
• A series of tilted matches between knights
• Games and Sports 
• Sports and games which included archery, bowling,
  cards, dice, hammer-throwing, quarter-staff
  contests, quoits, skittles and wrestling
• Animal Sports 
• Included bear and bull baiting, and dog and cock
  fighting
• Hunting 
• Sport followed by the nobility often using dogs
• Hawking 
• Sport followed by the nobility with hawks
  (otherwise known as falconry)

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Language

• ANTICK the fool in the old plays
• BODIKIN an oath (Today I swear) 'Od's
  Bodikin,' God's little Body
• CALIVER a hand-gun
• DROLLERY a puppet-show
• ENGLUT to swallow speedily
• FET fetched
• GAST frightened
• HOISE to hoist, heave up on high
• INLY inward
• LOWT a clown
• NEELD a needle
• OPE open
• QUICKEN to come to life
• STIGMATICAL deformed
• TREACHERS traitors