Click on this link and read the article. Answer the following questions
1.Who owned the land?
2.What was the basis of wealth in the early Middle Ages?
3. A visit of a Lord to a Vassal could be very expensive. Why?
4.Explain the logic about how a serf could gain his/her freedom
5. Browse some manor houses and castles here
6. What is a trencher and how many people would share one?
1.Who owned the land?
2.What was the basis of wealth in the early Middle Ages?
3. A visit of a Lord to a Vassal could be very expensive. Why?
4.Explain the logic about how a serf could gain his/her freedom
5. Browse some manor houses and castles here
6. What is a trencher and how many people would share one?
1. Land was owned by the nobility. Kings, nobles, vassals, barons, prince, lords.
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3. The Vassal would have to host the lord and his entourage. Very costly in terms of food
4.If someone ran away and was able to stay away for a whole year AND a day, then they don't belong to the land anymore and belong someplace else.
5.Manor House. A huge piece of land with a huge house and a village close by. Where the lord lives.
6.A trencher was a hollowed out piece of bread used as a plate/bowl, Often old, perhaps mouldy, weevil filled, and ahared between 2 people, along with the cup and the knife that the man wielded.