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Describe the picture and what seems to be happening

Explore the structure of feudal society - from kings to serfs - and delve into the daily lives, roles, and cultural norms of medieval peasants, women, nobility, and knights. Discover key wars such as the Battle of Hastings, the Crusades, and the Hundred Years' War, and the technological advancements and architectural feats of the era.

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Describe the picture and what seems to be happening

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  1. Describe the picture and what seems to be happening

  2. Feudalism and Manorialism

  3. Feudal Society • Social • Could not change social position • Kings, Lords/Nobles, Knights, Serfs • Political • Leading Nobles controlled everything • Knights protected the nobles and enforced rule • Built Castles that sometimes rivaled the King • Fought among themselves • Economic • Manorialism • Provided and produced everything for survival • Serfs- farmers • Protected by the Noble from outsiders for their service • Bound to the Land

  4. Culture • Life Style • Peasants • Lived on the Manor • Produced the food- worked long hours in the fields • Lived in two room cottages- Farm animals often lived inside the home • Women • Role determined by the attitudes of the church and nobility-Below the Man • Biblical story of Eve-disobedience in the Garden of Eden • Nobility • Spent most of the time in prayer and domestic chores • Peasants • Worked along side of man in fields • Ran home and took care of livestock

  5. Feudalism/Manorialism • Feudalism – political and social system that developed during the Middle Ages, when royal governments were no longer able to defend their subjects; nobles offered protection and land in return for service • Knights/Vassals- Warriors swore an oath of loyalty to their leaders and fought for them, the leaders, in turn, took care of the warriors’ needs. • Vassal – a man who served a lord in a military capacity.

  6. Technology • Agriculture • Three-field system • 1. 2 fields planted on for a year and 1 was left Fallow (unplanted) • Fallow field was rotated every year between the 3 fields • Collar • New collar for a horse that would not choke them • Plow • carruca -New Iron wheeled plow • Architecture • Flying Buttress and ribbed vaulted ceilings

  7. Wars • Invasion of England by France • Battle of Hastings 14 October 1066 Normans of France take control of England • The battle also established the superiority of the combined arms attack • Archers, Calvary and Infantry • II. Crusades: Wars fought between the Christians and Muslims over the Holy Land (Jerusalem). • Byzantine Empire Called for help • Issued by Pope Urban IIin 1095 • Causes: • Religious zeal (pride) • Get rid of bad knights. • Money • The consequences: • The Middle East (Asia) & Europe began trading Again • Weakened the power of nobles. • Pope’s power weakened.

  8. Wars… • III. Hundred Years War- England and France • When the last French king died without an heir, England’s King Edward III tried to take the French throne. • This battling back and forth between 1337- 1453 became known as the Hundred Year’s War. • Characteristics • War was fought on French land. • New Weapons • English Long Bow… later on Gunpowder, cannons • Kings had their own soldier • France ended up winning the war. • Joan of Arc-Young French maiden God told her to save France • Pretended to a male and rallied the soldiers • Captured by the English burned at the stake as a witch

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