1. Medieval Times

2. Social Classes
Nobility
Peasantry
Clergy

3. Nobility Sheltered in castles MEN: Engaged in combat as knights WOMEN:
Managed estates, looked
after the sick

4. Knight’s Code The laws of the knights were these:
Be always ready, with your armour on, except when you are taking your rest at night.
At everything, try to win honour and a name for honesty.
Defend the poor and weak.
Help them that cannot defend themselves.
Do nothing to hurt or offend anyone else.
Be prepared to fight in the defence of your country.
Work for honour rather than profit.
Never break your promise.
Rather die honest than live shamelessly.
Chivalry requireth that youth should be trained to perform the most laborious and humble offices with cheerfulness and grace.
A knight is at all times a gentleman. Money does not make a gentleman. A gentleman is anyone who carries out the rules of chivalry of the knights.
Knight’s Code The laws of the knights were these:

5. Ladies Responsibilities: For fun: Kitchen/Meals Finances Servants
Have children
Take over when men were gone
For fun:
Owned expensive clothes
Picnics
Falconry
Chess

6. Peasantry The vast majority of people
lived miserably in one-room huts,
these people were also known
as SERFS.

7. Clergy Monks were learned people. Most were illiterate!
–including the nobility-
were illiterate!
Nuns were allowed to sing
and compose music for their choirs.

8. Most medieval music was vocal.
Instruments were used mainly as accompaniment. Instruments were frowned on in church~the clergy complained they distracted worshipers.

9. Medieval Instruments Psaltry Lute Tabor Bass Recorder Rebec Shawm
Hurdy-Gurdy

10. Neumes
Medieval:
Today:

11. Neumes Neumes and their modern equivalents,
used in Medieval music notation
Go here to see examples:
listen and follow an example HERE

12. Sacred Music A melody set to sacred Latin text, sung a capella.
Gregorian Chant:
The official music of the Roman Catholic church.
A melody set to sacred
Latin text, sung a capella.
Named after
Pope Gregory I.

13. Secular Music Dance Music Love Songs Performed by: Minstrels
Troubadours
Jongleurs

14. written to best express the sentiment in each line of a poetic text.
Madrigal
Madrigals- secular vocal music composition beginning in the 14th century and developed chiefly in the 16th century in England. The word has its origin in either Mandrialis (pastoral song), or matricials (in the mother tongue).
Madrigals- in through-composed form, polyphonic and a capella, number of voices varying from 2-8.
Madrigals-
written to best express the sentiment in each line of a poetic text.

15. Medieval Dancing
Ronde
Branle
Estampie
Saltarello
Farandole

16. Clothing
Nobility
Peasantry

17. Clothing/Costumes

18. English Christmas Customs
Wassail - A holiday drink from the Anglo-Saxon, “Wes-hal,” means “be whole.” Old wassail bowls were immense. It was the custom of the stewards upon entering the banquet hall to call out, “Wassail, Wassail”. It was served in the wassail bowl with toast floating on top. Hence, drinking the toast.
Boar’s Head - Traditionally the heart of the Christmas feast. Mouth propped open with an apple, the head was brought in to fanfare and special carol. Its origin is Psalm 80, in which Satan is the “boar out of the wood.” The head of the slain boar, paraded about the Great Hall, showed defeat of Satan by the newborn Christ child. The master of the house would take an oath upon it to perform a charitable deed, often others would follow suit.
The Twelve Days of Christmas - Known liturgically as Epiphany, represents the traditional time of the Magi journey to worship the Christ child. The twelve days were a time of great feasting, celebration, singing, carols, and general merry making.

19. Coat of Arms

20. the art of blazoning and marshalling a coat of arms
Heraldry
the art of blazoning and marshalling a coat of arms
By 1400 A.D., bearing a coat of arms had become a prerequisite to participation in a tournament, and due to the importance of social standing in such pageants, a coat of arms also became a mark of noble status