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Entry Task DAY 1 – The Middle Ages – 1066-1485
1) the differencas of the daily life of a peasant as opposed to a noble were vast
2) daily life in the middle ages were dictated by wealth power and status and the feudal system
3) the peasants including serfs freemans and villeins on a manor lived close together in one or more villages
4) their small thatch roofed and one roomed houses would be grouped about an open space (the “green”), or on both sides of a single narrow street
5) the only important building were the parish church the parsonage a mill if a stream ran through the manor and possibly a blacksmiths shop
6) the population of one of these villages often did not exced won hundred people
Entry Task Day 2: Medieval Village Life
1) medieval village life during the middle ages was self-sufficient
2) the inhabitants tryd to produce at home everything they required in order to avoid the uncertainty and expense of trade
3) the land gave them their food the forest provided them with wood for houses and furniture and they made their own clothes of flax wool and leather
4) their meals and flour where ground at the village mill and at the village smithy there farm tools where manufactured
5) the chief articles witch needed to be bought from some distant market were salt used to salt down farm animals killed in autumn iron for various tools and millstones
6) cattle horses and surplus grain also formed common objects of exchange between manors
Entry Task Day 3: Medieval Village Life
1) life in a mideval village was rude and ruff
2) the peasants labored from sunrise to sunset ate coarse fare lived in huts and sufferad from frequent diseases
3) they ware often helpless prey of the feudal nobles
4) if their lord happened to be a quarrelsome man given to fighting with his neighbors they might see their lands raved their cattle driven off their village burned and might themselves be slain
5) even under peaceful conditions the narrow shut-in life of the manor couldnot be otherwise than degrading
6) under feudalism the lords and nobles of the land had certain rights over medival surfs and peasants which included the right to jurisdiction which gave judicial power to the nobles and lords the right of hunting
Entry Task Day 4: Positive Points of Life in the Middle Ages
1) there were positive point of peasant and there village life in the middle ages
2) if the peasaunts had a just and generous lord they probably led a fairly comfortable existence
3) except when crops failed they had an abundance of food and possibly a cider drink
4) they shared a comon life in the work of the fields in the sports of the village green and in the services of the parish church
5) they enjoyed many holiday it has been estimated that besides sundays about eight weeks in every year were free from work
6) festivitys at christmas easter and may day at the end of ploughing and the completion of harvest relieved the monotony of the daily round of labor
Week 2 Entry Task Day 5: The Feudal System
1) the feudal system was sustained by the writes and privileges gave to the upper classes and in most cases enact by laws
2) everything was a source of privilege for the noble
3) they had a thousands pretexts for establish taxes on their vassals who generally considered “taxable and to be worked at will
4) kings and councils waive the necessity of their studying in order to be receive as bachelors of university
5) if a noble was made a prisoner of war his life was saved by his nobility and his ransom had practically to be raised by the villains of his domains
Entry Task Day 6: Feudal System Rights of Hunting and Wearing Spurs
1) the feudal system rite of hunt was of all privileges dearest to and most valued by the nobles
2) not only were the sever and even cruelest penalties impose on “villains” who dared to killed the smallest head of game but quarrels frequently arose between nobles of different degrees on the subject some pretending to have a feudal privilege of hunting on the land of other
3) the right of jurisdiction which gave judicial power to the nobles and lords in cases rising in there domains had no appeal save to the king himself
4) nobles possess among their privileges that of waring spurs of silver or gold accord to their rank of knighthood
Entry Task Day 7: The Feudal System rights of Knighthood and Having Seats of Honor in Churches
1) nights had the write of reciving double rations when prisoner of war the right of never have to submit to torture after a trial unless they were condemned to death for the crime they comit
2) the noble alone posses the right of having seats of honore in churches and in chapels and to erect funeral monument
3) the epitaphs the placing of tombs the position of monument were all subject for conflicts or lawsuits
Entry Task Day 8: Life of the Knights
1) it was the duty of a middle age night to learn how to fight and so serve their lord according to the code of chivalry
2) the code of chivalry dictate that a night should be brave and fearless in battle but would also exhibit the cultured nightly qualities showing themselves to be devout loyal courteous and generous
3) weapon practice included enhancing skills in the two handed sword battle axe mace dagger and lance
4) a night would be expect to guard the castle and support his liege lord in middle ages warfare
Entry Task Day 9: Knighthood
1) to gain knighthood in the middle ages was a long and arduous task
2) knighthood was not bestow purely because a young mand was the sun of a noble
3) their were many steps to achieve a knighthood requiring years of training
4) the steps achieving knighthood started with train as a page and then as a squire also referred to as esquire
Week 3, Entry Task Day 10: Knights Armour
1) the armor used in the middle ages was gradual perfected until at length the night became a living fortress
2) a medivil knights armor was vital on the battlefields of the middle ages
3) the nights armor provide essential body protection from the various weapons which were used in battle including the two-handles sword bow and arrows crossbow battle axe mace dagger and lance
4) padded garment and chainmail where used prior to the development of suits of armor and subsequently worned in conjunction with the armor suits
5) a medieval nights armor were designed and developed to protect them from any new and even more lethal weapons that were introduced during the violent period of the middle ages
Entry Task Day 11: Knights Tournaments
1) a tournament was a series of mounted and armored combat fought as contests in which a number of nights compete and the one that prevail through the final round or finish with the best record was declared the winner and award a prize or purse of money
2) roger of hoveden was an english chronicler who was employed by king henry II described tournaments as military exercised carried out, not in the spirit of hostility but solely for practice and display of prowess”
3) the tournaments were the favorit sport of medieval nights
4) tournaments were exciting and color pagenants wear hundred of knights participated in this popular entertainment of the middle ages
5) jousts melees pageantry courtly love and chivalric code all played a part in medieval tournaments
Entry Task Day 12: Women’s Lives in the Middle Ages
1) behind every famus king of the middle ages was a famus women, the medieval queens and princesses
2) who were the woman who were the wives of these famus English kings
3) the women of the middle ages where totally dominate by the male members of there family
4) the women were expected to instantly obey not only there father but also there brothers and any other mail members of the family
5) any unruly girls wear beaten into submission and disobedience was seen as a crime against religion
Entry Task Day 13: Nobel Women’s lives in the Middle Ages
1) the education of nobel woman in the middle ages concentrated on the practical as opposed to academic
2) young nobel women as young as seven girls would be sent away from home to life with another nobel family
3) their she would be taut a range of subjects and skills
4) manners and etiquette were of prime importance including how to curtsey and how to mix with the greatest nobels in the land
5) time would be spend learn to dance ride horse and learn archery
Entry Task Day 14: Marriage in the Middle Ages
1) the romance of courtly love was completely opposite to the practicalities of medieval marriage
2) the age of consent with parental permission it was legal for boys to marry at fourteen and girls at twelv
3) a betrothal often took place when the prospective bride and grom where as young as 7 yrs old and in the case of higher nobility many wear betrothed as babys
4) nobel women had very little if any choice in who her husband might be
5) marriages where often arranged so that both familys involved wood benefit
6) marriage for love was a rear occurrence
Week 4
Entry Task Day 15: Appearance of Nobel Women
1) the appearance of nobel women during the middle ages was important
2) a woman aged quikly during this era due to constant child bearing
3) the diet of nobel woman during the middle ages lacked vitamin c which resulted in bad teeth and bleeding gums
4) to retain the appearance of yuth a nobel women of the middle ages might even die her hair yellow with a mixture of saffron cumin seed celandine and oil
5) face make up were apply to acquire a pail look
6) a pail complexion was so desired that woman where bleed to achieve the desire look
7) face paint made from plant ruts and leafs was also apply
Entry task Day 16: Middle Ages Food and Beverage
1) the person of the middle ages enjoy to drink and as water was often disclean it was a necessity
2) the poor drink ale mead or cider and the rich was able to drink many diff types of wines
3) the influence of the crusades had a startle effect on middle ages food
4) kings knights lords and other crusaders had travel 3000 mls to reach the Holy Lands and during there travel they was introduced to the spices which was added to diff foods by diff cultures
5) these new idears about middle ages food was brought back by the crusaders and new foods and spices was introduced to the european menu
Entry Task Day 17: Middle Ages Clothing
1) among European nachions during the middle ages there was always wom common standard of fashion and cloth which varied from time to time accord to the particular custom of each country and accord to the peculiarities of each ethnicity
2) in Italy for instance clothing and dress always maintain a certain character of grandeur ever recalling the fact that the influence of antiques was not quit loss
3) in germany and switzerland cloth and garment had generally a heavy and massive appearance in Holland still more so
4) england uniformly studied a kind of instinctive elegance in clothing
5) spain partook the heaviness of clothing peculiar to germany because the gothic element still prevailed there
6) france was fickle always ready to borrow from every and any style of clothing
Entry Task Day 18: Clothing as Status Symbol
1) the clothing worn by noblety and upper class are clearly different than that of the lower class
2) medieval clothes provide info about the status of the person wear them
3) the clothing and fashion during the Medieval era of the middle ages are dominate and highly influenced by the kings and queens of the era
4) only the wealthy cud dress in fashionable clothes
Entry Task Day 19: Sumptuary Laws of the Middle Ages
1) laws date back to the romans restric ordinary people in their spending are called sumptuary laws
2) the definition of the word sumptuary is derived from the latin word which means expenditure
3) english sumptuary laws were imposed by rulers to curb the expenditure of people
4) sumptuary laws apply to food might beverages furniture jewelry and clothing
5) these laws where used to control behavior and ensure that a specific clas structure is maintain
6) the penalties for violating sumptuary laws cud b harsh fines the loss of property title and even life