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Feudalism/Early Middle Ages

Feudalism/Early Middle Ages. Manor Life. Feudalism. YouTube - Feudalism in Europe. Everybody in their place. In the Middle Ages, Christians believed that God put people where they belonged, so you should not try to change your place in society.

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Feudalism/Early Middle Ages

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  1. Feudalism/Early Middle Ages Manor Life

  2. Feudalism • YouTube - Feudalism in Europe

  3. Everybody in their place • In the Middle Ages, Christians believed that God put people where they belonged, so you should not try to change your place in society. • Keeping everybody in place involved a chain of command- the feudal system. Everybody owed “homage and fealty” to somebody above: the peasant to the lord of the manor (maybe a knight), the knight to his lord (maybe a noble), the noble to their lord (maybe a king or queen), and the king to God, who was Lord of all.

  4. When you made your oath of homage and fealty, you entered into an agreement with your lord; by accepting it, he made an agreement with you. • You promised to be faithful to your lord and to provide certain services. Your lord promised to respect his agreement with you, including your rights as his vassal over land or estates he might have granted.

  5. Kings and Queens • Kings and Queens were the greatest lords of Europe, and all the nobles and knights were their vassals.

  6. Nobles • Nobles were vassals of kings and queens. • The nobility had their work: to govern others and dispense justice, providing an orderly and safe life on their lands; to go to war when called by their lords, with whatever support they had sworn to bring, such as a specific number of knights and other fighting men.

  7. Knights • Served their noble lords in exchange for land. • Knights in England had to serve the king for 40 days a year without pay, or 2 months a year in wartime. Most of this time was spent guarding the king’s castles, or training for battle.

  8. Peasants • Peasants were at the bottom of the social scale. They had their work: to farm the land, producing food for everybody; to work or fight for their lord; to pay fees and taxes to their lord, and a tithe to the Church. A peasant’s life was very hard.

  9. A lego story of feudalism • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lts_1HSOQhY

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