Elizabethan England Topic Summaries
Key terms
Elizabeth’s accession
- - Social structure 1588 England
- - Elizabeth I’s background
- - Elizabeth I’s character strengths
- - The coronation of Elizabeth I
- - Elizabeth’s legitimacy and early challenges
- - Government structure
- - Life at court
- - The Privy Council
- - Profile: William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
- - Profile: Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
- - Profile: Francis Walsingham
- - Profile: Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
- - Profile: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
- - Profile: Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
- - Factions, allies, and rivalries in the Privy Council
- - The Puritans and Parliament
- - Propaganda and royal image
- - The question of marriage
- - The question of succession
- - Challenges at home and abroad
- - Essex’s rebellion
Elizabethan life and culture
- - The golden age
- - Growing prosperity and the rise of the gentry
- - The role of the theatre
- - Education
- - Family life
- - Sport, art, and other pastimes
- - Puritan opposition to ‘Merry England'
- - Persecution of witches
- - Socio-economic status
- - Reasons for increased poverty and vagabondage
- - Responses to poverty
Religious challenges and plots
Imperial ambitions
Conflict with Spain
Elizabeth’s accession
- - Social structure 1588 England
- - Elizabeth I’s background
- - Elizabeth I’s character strengths
- - The coronation of Elizabeth I
- - Elizabeth’s legitimacy and early challenges
- - Government structure
- - Life at court
- - The Privy Council
- - Profile: William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
- - Profile: Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
- - Profile: Francis Walsingham
- - Profile: Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
- - Profile: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
- - Profile: Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
- - Factions, allies, and rivalries in the Privy Council
- - The Puritans and Parliament
- - Propaganda and royal image
- - The question of marriage
- - The question of succession
- - Challenges at home and abroad
- - Essex’s rebellion
Elizabethan life and culture
- - The golden age
- - Growing prosperity and the rise of the gentry
- - The role of the theatre
- - Education
- - Family life
- - Sport, art, and other pastimes
- - Puritan opposition to ‘Merry England'
- - Persecution of witches
- - Socio-economic status
- - Reasons for increased poverty and vagabondage
- - Responses to poverty
Religious challenges and plots
Imperial ambitions
Conflict with Spain
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