Transcript People of the Middle Ages

If you wanted to become a knight it would be a long, hard process. To be a knight, a
boy started to train at about age seven. As a page, he learned to ride a horse, received
religious training, was taught manners, hunting, dancing and possibly learning to read
and write if there was someone in the manor who could teach him. At about the age of
twelve or thirteen, the page became a squire. Squires were assistants to the knights. A
squire looked after a knight’s armor and weapons and became skilled in their use. He
served the knight his meals and often followed him into battle. In tournaments he was
the only one allowed to help the knights. As he became older, he participated in
tournaments himself.
There were many different people in the Middle Ages. Some are well known, but others we do not
know so much. Here are some types of the people in the Middle Ages.
Vassals ruled lands granted to them by their king. Those lands were called fiefs. Within a fief, a vassal
acted as a local lord and could give portions of it to vassals of his own. Someone might be the vassal of
one person, but the lord of another. Noblewomen were the wives and daughters of noblemen. They
were in charge of the household servants and supervised the upbringing of children.
Monks and nuns were men and women who gave up their possessions and left ordinary life to live in
monasteries and convents. They lived very simply, could not marry, and devoted themselves to prayer,
study, and helping the poor. They also served as doctors.
Serfs lived in small communities called manors that were ruled by a local lord or vassal. Most peasants
were serfs. They were bound to the manor and could not leave it or marry without the manor lord's
permission. Serfs did all the work on the manor farm: they worked the fields, cared for the livestock,
built and maintained the buildings, made the clothing, and cut firewood. Men, women, and children
worked side by side. Serfs had small plots of land they could work for themselves; sometimes a serf
saved enough money to buy his freedom and became a freeman. Servants were peasants who worked
in the lord's manor house, doing the cooking, cleaning, laundering, and other household chores.
Kings
During the period of history known as the Middle Ages, feudalism was the law
of the land. It was the basis by which the upper nobility class maintained control over
the lower classes. In the Feudal System ,as the chart shows below, the upper rank was
the king and he grants land to the barons who will grant land to the knights who will
finally grant land to the villeins. The villeins provided food and services to the knights
when demanded, and the knights provide protection and military service to the barons.
The barons provided money and knights to the king.
The Illuminated Alphabet was used by monks. The monks would copy books by hand
in the most delicate amazing design. The letter was normally used as the first word of
the book. The illumination or decoration of manuscripts was one of the most common
Medieval arts. Illuminated manuscripts were generally written in ink on parchment or
vellum. Medieval Monks were dedicated to a pious and religious life in monasteries and
painstakingly copied religious texts and embellished these manuscripts with rich colors
which often featured the use of gold and silver. The monks worked in the Scriptorium
which was the room in a monastery used by clerics or scribes to copy manuscripts of
religious text. The production of these beautiful illuminated manuscripts brought both
wealth and prestige to the monasteries. The different types of Illuminated manuscripts
ranged from using miniature illuminations or full page illuminations to decorate the
religious text.
Medieval cathedrals were the most obvious sign of wealth in
medieval England. Although cathedral building was driven by
religious figures or institutions, it was often a community
effort. Cathedrals in the Middle Ages were typically large
churches and were considered the center church of the
bishop’s throne. In the medieval times, monumental
cathedrals were built to symbolize faith and a display of
creativity within the Middle Ages society in Europe.
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