The structure of Society

Question 1

What are the three orders of medieval society

Answer 1

Laboratores, Bellatores and Oratores

Question 2

What is a Laboratore

Answer 2

The workers, peasants both free and unfree

Question 3

What was the difference between free and unfree peasants

Answer 3

Unfree are tied to Land by the Lord

Question 4

What was the difference between male and female roles as peasants

Answer 4

women work in secondary industry such as textiles and pottery

Question 5

What was the Tallage tax

Answer 5

A tax for support for military activity

Question 6

What was the merchant tax

Answer 6

fine to marry off daughter as she belonged to the Lord

Question 7

What is the Leywrite

Answer 7

Fine for extramarital sex

Question 8

What was a Mill privilege

Answer 8

Paid to mill owner for permission to use his mill

Question 9

What did oratore do

Answer 9

Lots of different institutions doing entirely different things. No uniform ecclesiastical body. Monastries and abbeys don’t always do what papacy tells them to. Don’t agree on anything apart from basic fundamentals.

Question 10

Who owns all the land in the country technically

Answer 10

The King

Question 11

Explain the hierarchy of society

Answer 11

Marxist idea of feudalism is not true, much more complicated

Question 12

What is a Bellatore

Answer 12

The fighters,Owed occasional military service to lords but then would extort peasants. Knights are glorified thugs. Not necessarily rich. Swap protection for food

Question 13

Explain the cycle of monasticism

Answer 13

• Monasticism becomes a new aspect of life- Chastity, poverty and obedience. Holy radical men who want to get away from money and corrupt life  they go into wilderness and set up monasteries  People are impressed with their holiness and give them money and land

Question 14

What was the idea of separation between religious people

Answer 14

• Religious people should be separate from rest of society

Question 15

Explain the importance of reputation

Answer 15

• The importance of reputation incredibly important in Medieval society. Who you knew/Who your family was could stop you even being killed. This idea is called Kinship. Feud is the fight between too medieval Kins. SOCIAL STATUS BASED ON KEEPING REPUTATION SAME.

Question 16

Were Feuds illegal

Answer 16

• People could have interpersonal legal violence , law upheld that. However if you had feud in market then you could be done for breaking the King’s Peace.

Question 17

Was it good to have a kin group

Answer 17

The bigger the better

Question 18

Were feuds the primary way to solve violence

Answer 18

No, go before community first

Question 19

How do we know different parts of society were worth different things

Answer 19

Look at dismemberment lists, how much your fine for attacking a person was depended on who they were and what you took (ear/eye etc.) from them

Question 20

What is a form of evidence that shows that there was blurred line between religious and secular

Answer 20

Thomas Becket’s appointment
Roger of Salisbury- who gave his family different roles

Question 21

What does Christopher Dyer say

Answer 21

Social status and roles defined rural communities and landownership, wealth and kinship ties shaped identity

Question 22

Susan Reynolds

Answer 22

Argues that the division between the three orders of society were actually not clear cut and in fact quite fluid.

Question 23

Marc Bloch

Answer 23

The different orders were reliant on each other

Question 24

Georges Duby

Answer 24

The orders of society give us a framework to understand