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The Butler-Bowdon Cope, 1330–1350, V&A Museum no. T.36-1955.. The Anglo-Saxon embroidery style combining split stitch and couching with silk and goldwork in gold or silver-gilt thread of the Durham examples flowered from the 12th to the 14th centuries into a style known to contemporaries as Opus Anglicanum or "English work".
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 .
Elizabeth is a principal character in the play Elizabeth of England by Ferdinand Bruckner (1930). 20th century American Pulitzer Prize -winning playwright Maxwell Anderson dramatized episodes of Elizabeth's life in two of his most popular plays, Elizabeth the Queen (1930), starring Lynn Fontanne , [ 10 ] and Mary of Scotland (1933), starring ...
Wollaton Hall, rear view. Wollaton Hall is an Elizabethan country house of the 1580s standing on a small but prominent hill in Wollaton Park, Nottingham, England.The house is now Nottingham Natural History Museum, with Nottingham Industrial Museum in the outbuildings.
The boys amounted to formidable competition for the companies of adult actors in Elizabethan England. [ 5 ] (p 46) Between 1558 and 1576 (the year James Burbage built The Theatre in London and the age of popular Elizabethan drama began), companies of boy actors performed 46 times at Court, versus only 32 times for companies of adult actors in ...
Attributed to Nathaniel Bacon, The artist's wife, Jane Bacon, Lady Cornwallis, née Meautys, ca. 1614-1617 He was the youngest son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave, who was the elder brother of the leading politician and philosopher Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam), [1] and so with connections to the political elite of late Elizabethan England.
Susan Michelle Doran FRHistS [1] (née Savitt; [2] born 7 February 1948) [3] is a British historian whose primary studies surround the reign of Elizabeth I, in particular the theme of marriage and succession.
In England and Scotland in 1788, two-thirds of the workers in 143 water-powered cotton mills were described as children. [40] In 19th-century Great Britain, one-third of poor families were without a breadwinner , as a result of death or abandonment, obliging many children to work from a young age.