The document summarizes entertainment, education, travel, and medicine in the 1500s. For entertainment, activities varied by social class, with nobility participating in art, theater, and sports, the middle class enjoying traveling performers and blood sports, and the poor class having tournaments and plays. Grammar school educated boys ages 7-14 in subjects like Latin, arithmetic, and religion. Travel was primarily on foot or by ship, with travelers sleeping in homes, farms, or on ships' decks. Medicine relied on herbal remedies, and plague doctors treated diseases like the bubonic plague while dressed in protective clothing.

1. ENTERTAINMENTs
The entertainments were different between social classes and also
between men and ladies.
NOBILITY
ladies: their activities were mainly art, theatre, parties, reading
books,chatting, walking or play some games like chess
men: they would usually practise fencing, falconry, horse riding,
hunting, cricket, tennis, gambling and cards
MIDDLE CLASS
ladies and men: they would enjoy travelling troupes that sing act
and play instruments, blood sports like bear baiting, dog fighting,
cockfighting and occasionally theatre.
POOR CLASS
ladies and men: they would participate to tournaments, dancing,
trained animals games, dancers, mystery plays, jugglers and strolling
players. Some entertainments were also process, public humiliation
and witch trial

2. GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
Students attended grammar school ages 7-14
- The topics changed according to the age of
the student.
> the aim was to systematically teach
Latin, because it wa the language of
the church.
- Other subjects could also be taught:
aritmetic, calligraphy, music, metrics, religion,
mathematics and astronomy and law.

3. TRAVELING
Who travelled?
Merchants, migrants, messengers, military, religious figures, nobles, tax collectors,
artisans, prostitutes, artists, minstrels, students, intellectuals, vagrants, beggars ecc...
How long did the trip last?
The journey lasted from sunrise to sunset, even if they had to go and come back on
the same day.
How did they travel?
by land or by sea

4. Where did the travellers sleep?
on land→ Hospitality at cottages and farms was a common practice and, in some
countries, even mandatory.
at sea→ In travels by sea it was better to sleep on the bridge than under the deck,
where the heat and the stench was unbearable: passenger did not carry clothes to
get changed, were infected with lice and in the latrines the waves came in.

5. MEDICINE
Medicine in the 1500’s wasn’t very developed and people were just
following the beliefs of the time:
-Tudor medicine consisted of herbal remedies.
-Example: mixuture of sage,lavander and majoram to treat headaches ecc.
The Plaque
-Plague Doctors treated the Bubonic Plague and typhoid
-Dressed in a beaked mask,boots,gloves and were wrapped in vinegar-
doused clothes.
-The black death was the most fatal pandemic recorded.
-Death: 75-200 million people

6. Cause
-It was caused by fleas living in the black rats that travelled in merchant ships.
-Contact person-to-person = very fast spread of the pandemic caused also for filthy streets
with live animals of all sorts around and human parasites abounding
Symptoms
-Fever of 38-41°, headaches,painful aching joints, nausea and vomiting; you could die in 8
days.