The Chain of Being

• Concept from the Middle Age
• Gods idea of a strict hierarchy
• God
• Angles
• Humans
• Monarchs
• Nobles, Churchmen
• Gentlemen
• Commoners
• Animals
• Plants
• Stones
• men are superior to women
• accepting your stage is rewarded by God

Religion

• believe in God
• Concept of heaven and hell
• England was a Protestant country
• Reformation movement
• fights for religion
• no public office jobs for Catholics
• Puritans
• Church didn't gone far enough
• eliminate bishops, ceremonial robes
• sins: seeing plays, drinking, gambling, fine clothes

Myths and Magic

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Little and Large

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English Renaissance

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