2.  Page 68-69, paragraph 11-14. “… while my father bellowed from above, “Dowry! Manors! Treasure! You want me to pay you to take the girl? Dowry? I’ll give you her dowry!”  In Middle Ages women were sold like property to men. At their weddings it is custom for the wife to bring a dowry. A plot of land, sheep, oxen, a kind of gift.

3.  Page 101, paragraph 4, “The night sounds in a castle are so different from home.”  In the Middle Ages castles are just something you would see in some of the more wealthy places. As in royal or noble families would have them.

4.  Page 102, paragraph 3,”George is coming home. Near twenty years ago he went crusading with prince Edward.”  The Crusades were a series of wars fought to regain the Holy Lands, and, as the Christians saw it, to their rightful owners, themselves.

5.  Page 101, paragraph 1, “Dinner was festive, with wine and musicians and minstrels and much laughter.”  In the Middle Ages a source of entertainment was the minstrels and musicians, the tom-foolery and music was a bought-on entertainment source.

6.  Page 3, paragraph 1,”What follows will be my book– the book of Catherine, called Little Bird or Birdy, daughter of Rollo and the lady Aislinn, sister to Thomas, Edward, and the abominable Robert, of the village of Stonebridge in the shire of Lincoln, in the country of England, in the hands of God. Begun this 19 th day of September in the year of Out Lord 1290, the fourteenth year of my life.”  The Middle Ages spanned from the 500 to 1500 A.D. 1290, in my book, is almost right in the middle of both of these dates.

7.  Page 1, paragraph 4, “Today the sun shone and the villagers sowed hay, gathered apples, and pulled fish from the stream.”  In Middle Ages, this was a very common thing villagers did back then. They would do the tasks of providing villages and towns with food and other necessitys.

8.  Page 41, paragraph 1, “I must doctor myself with wormwood and mint.”  In the Middle Ages, doctors and hospitals were not an all-around thing. Mostly rich people could only get good doctors. Others would have to create their own medical treatments. Usually with herbs and other items from nature.

9.  Page 55, paragraph 4, “We ate glazed eggs, apple tarts, whole pigeons and snipes, peacock in raisin sauce, red and white jellies, pig stomach stuffed with eggs and spices, and potted beef with nutmeg.”  In the Middle Ages a lot of meat as in birds and pigs would be grown for the eating. If they were not eaten, they were sold.

10.  Page 3, paragraph 1, “The skins are my father’s, left over from the household accounts, and the ink also. The writing I learned of my brother Edward, but the words are my own.”  In the Middle Ages skins of animals were used as well as inks for writing in Latin. Usually monks would be scribes, making documents and writing books.

11.  Page 73 paragraph 4, “… and the Christmas play began.”  Middle Age life could consist of plays and only a few weeks a year when villagers and the people back then could spend not constantly working. Plays of Christmas and Christ’s life were regular things in big cities and towns.

12.  http://www.middle- ages.org.uk/index.htm http://www.middle- ages.org.uk/index.htm  http://www.medieval- life.net/life_main.htm http://www.medieval- life.net/life_main.htm  http://www.learner.org/interactives/mid dleages/feudal.html http://www.learner.org/interactives/mid dleages/feudal.html