Houses from the Elizabethan Era

Houses
· Houses built in the Elizabethan era were meant to last a really long time.
· Examples of Elizabethan houses can still be seen in England today.
· Elizabethan houses had vertical and diagonal timbers, high chimneys, and thatched roofs.
· The timbers that held up Elizabethan houses had vertical timbers which had diagonal timbers branching off of them.
· The high chimneys that Elizabethan houses had decorative chimney pots and an assortment of patterns.
· The roofs of Elizabethan houses were thatched which meant they were made out of straw or reeds.
· Since the roof was the only place for animals to get warm an assortment of animals slept up there.
Elizabethan Era. 24 Oct. 2007 http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/architecture-of-elizabethan-houses.htm

Elizabethan Make-Up and Hygiene. *GASP*

-Lip color was made from fucus red was actually red mercuric sulfide.

-Often cosmetics contained low grade poisons.

-lead was used to powder the hair and the skin.

-Lead causes retardation and many died young of lead poisoning.

-When someone realized the workers who prepared the lead powders were dying, rice powder came into vogue to give the wearer the alabaster complexion

-Coal tar was used at times to line the eyes or darken the eyelashes and could cause blindness.

-There was no regulation of ingredients, anything went.

-Back then they didn’t know anything about germs and didn’t even know that they exist.

-A lot of people got sick because they had no idea how to treat it how we are able to treat diseases and even a common cold now-a-days.

-They most likely didn't for a week or two, or even wash their clothes.

Bubonic Plauge

The bubonic plauge had a huge impact on the elizabethen age. Some of the outbreaks in London and other large cities brought down the population and ruined the way of life. It also brought down businesses. The reason this happened was because of how many people it killed, there were not many people left to keep the buisnesses up and running. William Shakespeare was actually teriffied of the plauge. It effected his acting career and the way he went of life. He was just an example of all the people that were effected by this horrific event.

Elizabethan England - Jobs

Jobs

· Acrobat – a popular entertainer
· Apothecy – a doctor that made medicine for sick people. A priest took this job
· Artist- people who made art
· Baker – made bread, which was eaten daily
· Blacksmith – an important job, but low status
· Butler – responsible for the castle cellar
· Carpenter – highly skilled, made buildings
· Chancellor – a secretary for a noble person
· Clerk – a job to keep accounts
· Cook – a person who cooks in castles for royal people
· Jester – (or fool) someone to entertain the queen
· Knight – someone who fights for the queen
· Messenger – someone who carried messages
· Moneylender- bankers
· Physician – highly regarded and respected doctors
· Sheriff – an important official of county who was responsible for justice-related things
· Spinster – an occupation given to women who made a life spinning yarn
· Watchmen – an official at the castle responsible for security (also night-watchmen)
· Potter – craftsman of clay
· Astrologer – people who studied the stars, often thought as mystical people
· Steward – took care of the castle and house-hold chores
· Herald or Harker – yell announcements oh behalf the queen or noble
· Cottar – the lowest peasant occupations, their duties include swine-herd or prison guard
· Clothier - Clothiers made clothes for the nobles
· Candlemaker - made candles to light a castle or palace.
· Bottler - a responsible occupation and was in charge of the Bottlery which was for storing and dispensing wines and other expensive things.
· Scribe - Most Scribes came from religious establishments. reading, writing and comprehension skills were learned
· Scullion- Scullions were the lowest of kitchen workers whose duties included washing and cleaning the kitchen
· Painter - Elizabethan castles ere highly colorful and painters were needed
· Chaplain - responsible for the religious activities of a castle servants and knights.
· Minstrel - provided Castle entertainment like singing and playing musical instruments. they usually gave knights publicity

website: http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-occupations-and-jobs.htm

Elizabethan England-Clothes

Clothes in the Elizabethan age:
-Women wore more classy clothes ,like dresses or gowns, then the women today
-Women often wore a hoop skirt
-They wore more things to make their body appear perfect
-Women wore hats
-Women had more under clothes then guys
-men have more options for over clothing
-the men wore a corset also
-they had the Elizabethan Sumptuary law that made sure certain classes would dress appropriately
-the clothes people wore, symbolized there class of life
-only certain classes could were certain colors
-the higher class could were colors like purple
-it was forbidden for lower class to were higher class colors
-if lower class wore higher colors then consequences would be put into effect