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The Culture, Society and Town Life. Drew Kuzma Camille Dematteo Rachel Pollack Ali Epstein A lexa Matillano. Housing and Housing Interiors. Homes in this era were known as Tudor homes There were more windows and staircases in these homes.
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The Culture, Society and Town Life Drew Kuzma Camille Dematteo Rachel Pollack Ali Epstein Alexa Matillano
Housing and Housing Interiors • Homes in this era were known as Tudor homes • There were more windows and staircases in these homes. • Houses were made for comfort instead of self-defense • Furniture became more elaborate • Great attention was paid to beds • Feather beds and four poster beds became popular
Meals • Families ate three meals • They had breakfast, lunch (which they called dinner) and super • They cooked on an open fire and used iron boxes for pans
Towns, Merchant Guilds and Craft Guilds • New social class (merchant) ~Population grew after black death ~Taxes go to government • Controlled trade ~People who bought and sold merchandise • People who made and sold merchandise ~Regulated equality, working hours and conditions of members
Apprentices, Journeymen and Masters, Cleanliness, Streets and Livestock in the streets • Two-seven years ~Traveled making crafts ~Only after best-work was approved for him to open his own shop • Dirty water was used • Newly paved roads during this time • Pigs ~Owner chargers for death of dead animal if his pig was shot in the street
High Society / Noble Obligations • This age was called the Tudor years • Nobility and Knights were at the top of the social classes. • Merchant class was rapidly growing • Nobles were normally people who inherited money and barely worked. • “Being a noble often brought debt not profit.” They had to house and entertain visiting nobles . • They had to maintain huge houses , always have lots of food and have a great deal of entertainment
Elizabethan • In this time one of the biggest honors was housing Queen Elizabeth. • She would stay with nobles throughout the country and she would save money by making the nobles pay a bill for her visit. • Many people wished to not house her because they feared bankruptcy.
Law Enforcement • The “Sanctuary” Law • Town Curfew Bell • Town Fires
Wooden and Brick Buildings • The Town Day • Market Hours • Bells and Criers
plays and playwrites were popular after 1580 • midievil tournaments were replaced with masques • guns back then did not work in wet weather
Nobles old & new • nobles old and new: • distinction between old and new families he new merchant class • the prosperity of the wool trade led to a surge in building in the active wool areas.
Works Cited • “Elizabeth I and Elizabethan Life in England." UK Travel and Heritage - Britain Express UK Travel Guide. Web. 12 Apr. 2011. • “Medieval England - Medieval Towns." UK Travel and Heritage - Britain Express UK Travel Guide. Web. 12 Apr. 2011.