1. 8/18 – AP Euro Agenda: Discuss outline BBC documentary
HW: Outlines: Vernacular Literature (p. 405 – 407); Listening to the Past: Christine de Pisan (p )

2. 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

3. BBC- Medieval marriage / Medieval lives (Outlaws)
Complete the video questions (this counts as today’s reading quiz)