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Elizabethan Era Social Classes and Occupations

Brianna Christensen & Erin Perkins

SOCIAL CLASSES

/OCCUPATIONS

MONARCH/NOBILITY

  • Kept small
  • Not replaced

  • Queen Elizabeth I
  • last ruler, Tudor

MONARCH/NOBILITY

GENTRY

  • land/military = path to power

GENTRY

MERCHANT

  • livery companies
  • controlled trade

MERCHANT

YEOMANRY

  • middle-class
  • largest

YEOMANRY

LABORERS

  • Elizabethan Poor Laws

LABORERS

Works Cited

  • “Elizabethan Era England Life.” Elizabethan England Life, www.elizabethanenglandlife.com/social-classes-in-elizabethan-era-the-yeomen-and-the-poor.html.
  • “Elizabethan Era.” The Lost Colony, thelostcolony.org/bringing-history-to-life/elizabethan-era/.
  • “The Social Structure in Elizabethan England.” The British Library, The British Library, 17 Feb. 2016, www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/the-social-structure-in-elizabethan-england.
  • "English Poor Laws." Social Welfare History Project, https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/poor-laws/
  • "Elizabthan Occupations and Jobs." Elizabethan Era, http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-occupations-and-jobs.htm

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