WRITE ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD WAS LIKE. WHAT WERE THE PEOPLE LIKE? WHAT DID THEY DO?

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 ASSAULTED WOMEN AND PILLAGED VILLAGES

EDUCATION ÇHURCH WAS CENTER OF MEDIEVAL LIFE  EDUCATION WAS UNDER CHURCH RULE  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: RICHARD THE LIONHEARTED  CRUSADES UNSUCCESSFUL

POLITICS FEUDAL SYSTEM A SYSTEM GEARED TO WAR  KING GRANTED LARGE AREAS OF LAND TO LORDS WHO HAD HELPED HIM  LORDS GRANTED LAND TO KNIGHTS  SERFS EKED OUT EXISTENCE

FEUDAL SYSTEM

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 OTHER KNIGHTS 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, accompanied by music and used for entertainment.

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

THINK ABOUT IT What did you write in your journal about the Medieval Period? Did you learn anything new? Were you right? Talk to a partner!