MIDDLE AGES

Knights 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.

People of the Middle Ages

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

Feudal System

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

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.

Cathedrals

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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