WRITE ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD IS ABOUT AND LIST 4 EXAMPLES IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.

THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD AN AGE OF CHIVALRY AND KNIGHTHOOD

 IMAGES ARE OF KNIGHTS, CASTLES, AND DAMSELS IN DISTRESS  MINSTRELS SINGING IN CASTLE HALLS  HEROES SAVING BESEIGED CASTLES ILLUSION VS. REALITY  SERFS LIVED WITH LIVESTOCK  THE PLAGUE KILLED HUNDREDS  KNIGHTS RAPED WOMEN AND PILLAGED VILLAGES

EDUCATION  ÇHURCH WAS CENTER OF MEDIEVAL LIFE  EDUCATION WAS PROVINCE OF CHURCH  MONKS/PRIESTS COPIED MANUSCRIPT AND PASSED ON RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS TO YOUNG SCHOLAR.  BEGINNING OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE

RELIGION  CHURCH WAS BOUND IN POLITICAL AFFAIRS  CRUSADES WERE MOST SIGNFICANT MOVEMENT-- PURPOSE WAS TO RETAKE THE HOLY LAND  LEADER OF CRUSADES WAS RICHARD THE LIONHEARTED  CRUSADES UNSUCCESSFUL

POLITICS  ENGLAND OPERATED UNDER THE FEUDAL SYSTEM-A SYSTEM GEARED TO WAR  WILLIAM THE CONQUERER GRANTED LARGE AREAS OF LAND TO LORDS WHO HAD HELPED HIM  LORDS GRANTED LAND TO KNIGHTS  SERFS EKED OUT EXISTENCE

KNIGHTS  SYMBOL 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  Satiric Poetry  Religious Poetry  Ballads - 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