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  2. Elizabethan era - Wikipedia

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    The diet in England during the Elizabethan era depended largely on social class. Bread was a staple of the Elizabethan diet, and people of different statuses ate bread of different qualities. The upper classes ate fine white bread called manchet, while the poor ate coarse bread made of barley or rye. Diet of the lower class

  3. English society - Wikipedia

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    Elizabethan era; English Renaissance; ... This or a similar system was the basis of later medieval society. ... The British class system created an intricate ...

  4. Elizabethan government - Wikipedia

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    England under Elizabeth I's reign, the Elizabethan Era, was ruled by the very structured and complicated Elizabethan government.It was divided into the national bodies (the monarch, Privy Council, and Parliament), the regional bodies (the Council of the North and Council of the Marches), the county, community bodies and the court system.

  5. Social class in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The social structure of the United Kingdom has historically been highly influenced by the concept of social class, which continues to affect British society today. [1] [2] British society, like its European neighbours and most societies in world history, was traditionally (before the Industrial Revolution) divided hierarchically within a system that involved the hereditary transmission of ...

  6. History of England - Wikipedia

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    The Elizabethan era was the epoch in English history of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history. The symbol of Britannia was first used in 1572 and often thereafter to mark the Elizabethan age as a renaissance that inspired national pride through classical ideals, international ...

  7. 1550s in England - Wikipedia

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    23 January – Elizabethan Religious Settlement: The 1st Parliament of Elizabeth I (summoned on 5 December) assembles at Westminster and passes the Act of Supremacy 1558 (requiring any person taking public or church office in England to swear allegiance to the English monarch as Supreme Governor of the Church of England) and the Act of ...

  8. Great chain of being - Wikipedia

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    The chain of being hierarchy has God at the top, [7] above angels, which like him are entirely spirit, without material bodies, and hence unchangeable. [8] Beneath them are humans, consisting both of spirit and matter; they change and die, and are thus essentially impermanent. [9]

  9. Timeline of the English poor law system - Wikipedia

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    The following article presents a timeline of the poor law system in England from its origins in the Tudor and Elizabethan era to its abolition in 1948.