WEEK 1 - SETTING THE SCENE – LIFE IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND
What Sense Do You Get Of What Life was like in Elizabethan England? Video Link- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01d4279 The Population/Society The Population/Society was strictly divided according to and as a result of the "Social Class" in which you were born into. A book written by a clergyman named William Harrison in 1577, gave a detailed description of Elizabethan England's social structure. Harrison gave an example of the three types of people that you would most likely meet while travelling the road or in a village Ale House. He stated that most countrymen fall into one of three different categories: a "Yeoman" may possibly own or rent his farm and then employ his own workers called "Laborers". A "Husbandman" rents the land that he works on. Finally "Laborers" work on other people's farms. As a person of a lower social class, your best chance to sustain an adequate quality of life was to find work as a Labor...