8/18 – AP Euro Agenda: Discuss outline BBC documentary HW: Outlines: Vernacular Literature (p. 405 – 407); Listening to the Past: Christine de Pisan (p. 410-411)

Outline – The Life of the People Make sure you hit these points: Marriage: church encouraged freely choosing so there was consent, but many were Arranged -Marriage meant babies = more workers = more money for your family Prostitution was legal, thought of as necessary, but prostitutes were looked down upon Marriages were sometimes extravagant but most of the time simple Craftsmen guilds were important to pass down skills, apprenticeships were extended Leisure – violence, drinking Laypeople took more and more responsibility over lands and parishes Fur-collar crime: after the war, people were out of work and needed money; often were not punished because of corrupt judicial system Peasant revolts – occurred more and more frequently as status changed (after Black Death); class distinctions became blurred, they wanted higher wages, etc Race and Ethnicity – Migrations after the Black Death; Medieval scholars (society) Believed that the differences in race lay mostly in custom, language, culture. Religion Is what was mostly targeted. This changed when there was more and more migration. *Statute of Kilkenney – 1366 – English must stay English if living in Ireland

BBC- Medieval marriage / Medieval lives (Outlaws) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saE-RLwfWpU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9GsccLoLvY Complete the video questions (this counts as today’s reading quiz)