Responsibilities Flashcards
(41 cards)
How do you become a lord or lady if you weren’t born into it
You don’t
What would be in a lords house
Beautiful things tapestry art fore place beds stone houses maybe a falcon
What are the three courts
Manor royal church
Manor court:
Deals with small disputes
Serfs can sue other serfs
Manor court while village gathers stew and representative of the lord
Royal court
Deals with murder and treason uses common law ( same laws around the kingdom) can order executions and excommunications
Church court
Lighter sentences more lenient
What court sentence was reserved for only nobles
A battle to the death of your a woman you send a champion in your place
What did some people sue
Rats
What are two types of trial
Trial by ordeal trial by battle
Examples of tried by ordeal
Torture methods
Swallow poison
Walk on coals
Carry hot metal
If you were a woman and you survived you would be called a witch
Trial by death
Battling to the death reserved for nobles
What does excommunicated mean
Kicked out of the church the worst sentence ever basically meant to them that you were going to hell
What was the only religious institution
Catholic
People think that king herold defeat happened ….. why?
His people thought because of all there sins it was gods consequence
What does ecclesiastical mean
Church life
What was church life like
Hamlets became monks women began nuns
Church offers education
New members took a vow of poverty chaverty and obedience
What kind of THINGS did they believe in
Relics
What were woman’s rights
They had none they were owned my their father then when married their husbands
Why did many people not know about the outside world
90% of the population were peasants and couldn’t leave or were to busy also maps wee rare and un accurate also there was a high chance they would be robbed
Why was travel so dangerous
Because outlaws were very common and outlaws probably hated nobles so they wouldn’t hesitate to kill them
What steps would have to be made to prevent from being robbed
Travelling in groups and all carrying weapons
Why did nobles know more about the outside world
because if when they visited relatives or other nobles but still many of them had little knowledge
What is the Silk Road
A trade route that went all the way to China
Why could Europeans travel it
Because king Chingis conquerd much of Asia including China