Elizabethan Era Social Classes and Occupations
Brianna Christensen & Erin Perkins
SOCIAL CLASSES
/OCCUPATIONS
MONARCH/NOBILITY
- Queen Elizabeth I
- last ruler, Tudor
MONARCH/NOBILITY
GENTRY
- land/military = path to power
GENTRY
MERCHANT
- livery companies
- controlled trade
MERCHANT
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