WRITE ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK THE MEDIEVAL

PERIOD IS ABOUT AND LIST 4 EXAMPLES IN COMPLETE

SENTENCES.

THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD1066-1484

AN AGE OF CHIVALRY AND KNIGHTHOOD

I

MAGES ARE OF KNIGHTS,

CASTLES, AND DAMSELS

IN DISTRESS

M

INSTRELS SINGING IN

CASTLE HALLS

H

EROES SAVING

BESEIGED CASTLES

ILLUSION VS. REALITYS

ERFS LIVED WITH

LIVESTOCK

T

HE PLAGUE KILLED

HUNDREDS

K

NIGHTS RAPED WOMEN

AND PILLAGED VILLAGES

EDUCATION

Ç

HURCH WAS CENTER OF MEDIEVAL LIFE

E

DUCATION WAS PROVINCE OF CHURCH

M

ONKS/PRIESTS COPIED MANUSCRIPT AND PASSED ON RELIGIOUS

TEACHINGS TO YOUNG SCHOLAR.

B

EGINNING OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE

RELIGION

C

HURCH WAS BOUND IN POLITICAL AFFAIRS

C

RUSADES WERE MOST SIGNFICANT MOVEMENT--PURPOSE WAS

TO RETAKE THE HOLY LAND

L

EADER OF CRUSADES WAS RICHARD THE LIONHEARTED

C

RUSADES UNSUCCESSFUL

POLITICS

E

NGLAND OPERATED UNDER THE FEUDAL SYSTEM-A SYSTEM GEARED

TO WAR

W

ILLIAM THE CONQUERER GRANTED LARGE AREAS OF LAND TO

LORDS WHO HAD HELPED HIM

L

ORDS GRANTED LAND TO KNIGHTS

S

ERFS EKED OUT EXISTENCE

KNIGHTSS

YMBOL OF CHIVALRY

TRAINING BEGAN AS EARLY AS 7

WELL-BORN BOY BECAME PAGE WHO SERVED IN LORD’S CASTLE

AROUND AGE 14 HE BECAME A SQUIRE WHO LEARNED COURTESY, MANNERS, AND HORSEMANSHIP

THEN HE FOLLOWED KNIGHT INTO BATTLE

BEFORE BECOMING A KNIGHT A YOUNG MAN MUST SWEAR ALLEGIANCE TO:

--WOMEN

--THE CHURCH

--THE KING

TYPES OF LITERATURE

S

atiric Poetry

R

eligious Poetry

B

allads - a simple narrative poem of folk origin,

composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing.

WE REMEMBER THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD FOR:

1. BEGINNING OF A NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

2. THE RISE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS

3. THE LITERARY CONTRIBUTIONS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER

4. THE BALLAD