Elizabethan Era Research Paper

The Life of Elizabethan England

The folks from the Elizabethan Era lived very differently than Americans do today. Their standards of living were much lower, and the rules and laws they had to go by were more strict. But, the people still had certain things that Americans have today such as education, consequences, religion and basic means of entertainment.

Most people in the Elizabethan Era were Catholic. The Catholics have seven sacraments: Baptism, Eucharist, Confirmation, Penance, Anointing the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony. The purpose of these sacraments was to worship Christ and to give humans a way of getting closer to god. Baptism is a sacrament for dipping yourself fully under water in order to wash away your old body’s sins and

The outfit all together look like ruffles on the chest area, and clothing covering about everything but your face and hands. Men’s clothing was similar except they wore doublets and breeches, doublets were the older shirts you see in the pirate movies. They are the clothing that the soldiers wear. The breeches are pants, kind of like leggings and they cover from the waist down to the ankle. They still had the ruffs and collars

“Nobility girls” is another name for the upper class girls. The schools had different names as they do now for the different ages. There was Petty school, also known as the Dame school, “dame” is a woman and these schools were usually run by women, they are also private schools usually. The Petty school was for ages 5 - 7 and they learned the Elizabethan alphabet and learning how to read and write English. The Elizabethan alphabet had 24 letters instead of 26. The “u” and “v” are the same as “i” and “j”. Then from ages 7 - 14 they went to Grammar schools but they all learned something different.The Grammar schools had different lessons they would teach with different ages, during the age of 7 they would learn parts of speech such as verbs and nouns. At age 8 the boys would be taught rules of grammar and how to build a sentence, the age of 9 would focus on English - Latin translation and vice versa. For ages 10 - 14 they would learn about classical authors such as Cicero and Seneca. After 14 the males would attend University. The schools were very strict in this era. The school boys were expected to communicate in Latin at all times in order to improve their spoken fluency in the language and any boy caught speaking English at school was punished. The punishments were fierce and fifty hits with a cane was not