Book
Elizabethans at home
Stanford University Press • Stanford, Calif. • Published In 1957 • Pages:
By: Pearson, Lu Emily.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source presents a highly detailed and uniformly excellent study of social life and social organization in the Elizabethan period, with variations noted for class, religious, and rural-urban differences. The author synthesizes data from a wide range of source materials, varying from contemporary Elizabethan writings to modern studies of the period. (There is some resort to early Stuart period writings and history, indexed as Comparative Materials and/or Sociocultural Trends where pertinent.) Much of the information in the source relevant to social life and organization is contained in chapters dealing with the house and gardens, household and family relationships, education, marriage and the establishment of a family and household, changes in the family brought about by a death, and, perhaps most interestingly of all for the general reader, a chapter devoted to the various interests and leisure time activities of the Elizabethans, such as games, sports, and other forms of entertainment, music and dancing, holiday activities, food and meals, clothing styles, and toilet. Political behavior and church-state relations are only lightly covered.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Dwellings
- Grounds
- Furniture
- Heating and lighting equipment
- Domestic service
- Standard of living
- Rest days and holidays
- Literature
- Ethics
- Gender status
- Classes
- Ethics
- Basis of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Nuptials
- Household
- Family relationships
- Dying
- Social readjustments to death
- Transmission of cultural norms
- Education system
- Elementary education
- Educational theory and methods
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- British (1485-1603)
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- British Isles
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 1977
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1558-1603
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- England and Wales, United Kingdom
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Lu Emily Pearson
- Titles of chapters in this source are: I Homes and gardens; II Fathers and mothers; III Education of children; IV Sons and daughters; V Preparation for marriage; VI Founding and maintaining the home; VII Changes wrought by death; VIII Elizabethans at home; bibliography; index.
- Information on Elizabethan social life, derived from or illustrated in contemporary Elizabethan literature or the so-called “conduct books” of the period, has been marked for category 538 plus whatever other substantive categories that may apply. For example, a “conduct book” dealing with the “proper” education of a young woman would be marked for category 538 in addition to 871 for education, and 562 for sex status.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 611-623)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 57009305
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- England--Social life and customs--16th century