Section 4: Middle Ages Flashcards
Feudal system
This is how land was owned and organised in a society
Middle ages
The time from about AD 500 to AD 1500
Demense
A king had a land which had gave piece if them for his followers and the quarter of land was hid own.
Serf
A person who belonged to his Lord and farmed his land
Freeman
A man who paid taxes for the Lord but he could travel as he pleased
Manor
The land everything owned by the Lord
Tithe
Church tax
Commons
Is where the peasants animals gathered together
Fallow
Each year one of the three fields was left as a fallow with nothing growing.
Crop rotation
Each year one of the three fields was left as a fallow with nothing growing.
Pottage
Vegetable soup with oatmeal
Bailiff
The bailiff is who make sure the peasants paid taxes
Sanctuary
Sometimes a person hinted by a bailiff and arrested by he
Motte and Bailey
They were made of wooden,very simple to build. Small hill was the motte. Fort was were they looked out. Bailey was where everyone lived.
Moat
A little river around the motte and bailey.
Keep
Was the main building of castle were Lord and family lived.
Battlements
Were the top of keep. All they long the soliders kept guard from here.
Turrets
Were strong towers along the walls
Portcullis
Was an iron grille that could be lowered in front of the castle gate.
Ramparts
Ran alone the top of the walls
Latrines
Were the toilets of the castle
Trenchers
Big slices of bread on which was served the food.
Wimple
The headress in Middle Ages
Hawking
Hunting with a trained hawk
Jousting
The knights game. Blunt swords and lances were used.
Dowry
Money that the wife’s family gives to husband to get married
Page
This the first stage to being a knight. When a lords son was 7 years old his father sent to him to an another castle to he can learn riding a horse and use sword.
Squire
When the boy was 14 years old he learned how to fight from a horses back. And also if was a warrior his knight bring him to helping in armours
Dubbing
The ceremony to be a knight.
Chivalry
The promise to be loyal to God when you been knight
Toll
The tax which was payed to you can trade in the town.
Curfew
Was that you can’t hold the fire in the house than you needed to put out when the bell ringed.
Leprosy
It was an type of skin disease that was contagious.
Black Death
The plague had killed more than one third of population in Europe. Was bringer by the black rat
Charter
This was a legal document in which the king agred to left the town
Apprentice
This is the First stage to become a crqftman which it was started with 7 years old boys
Journeyman
After 7 years at a craftman the boy becomes a journeyman which means that he travelled and build church
Master craftman
To become a a master craftman u needed to build a masterpiece
Romanesque
There were the first stone churches.
Fling buttresses
There were arches outside of the gothic church to support the weight of the roof
Dormitory
There were slept the monks
Refectors
Where the monks ate their meal
Scriptory
There were copied the manuscripts
Cloister
a covered walk, especially in a religious institution, having an open arcade or colonnade usually opening onto a courtyard.
Infirmary
The hospital in Middle Ages
Chapter house
There were the monks discuss about business
Novice
When the boy joined the monastery than the first stage to be a monk
Tonsure
The hairstyle for the monks
Matins
Morning prayers
Vespers
Evening prayers
Compline
Night prayer and return to beds
Abbot
Head of the monastery
Prior
He worked with the business
Almoner
Looked after poor
Hostel
Looked after travellers
Frair
They helped the monks. They travelled working with the poor
