1. Life in the High Middle Ages
Chapter 10
Life in the High Middle Ages

2. Questions to Answer
Who worked, prayed, and fought in medieval society, and what were their lives like?
What was the Cult of Saints?
Who was Thomas Aquinas, and why is he important?
What was the Gregorian Revolution?
What were the Crusades, and how did they change Western Civilization?

3. Life in the High Middle Ages
Those Who Work
Those Who Fight
Those Who Pray

4. The Three Orders
Those Who Work
2. Those Who Fight
3. Those Who Pray

5. The Backbone of Rural Economics
Manoralism
- Peasant class and the ruling class
1. Peasants need protection
- protection for work
1. free farmers (peasants)
2. not so free (serfs)
Feudalism
- The relationship between a lord or a
count and a vassal
1. The ruling class needs bodyguards
- money and land for protection
1. Fief & Homage
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6. The Feudal System

7. Those Who Work
Peasants
Serfs
Slaves

8. The Manoral System

9. Those Who Worked Serfs and Free Men
Peasants
Free farmers
1. differed greatly
Slaves
Slavs
Completely Owned
- Bought or sold
- Drops
Serfs (Most Important)
subject to the authority of another (lord)
1. Widespread &Paid Fees

10. The Manor The Manor - Estates (two parts) 1. demesne
2. Peasant & Serf lands
- Center rural medieval life
1. Pastures/Meadows/
Forest Land
2. Open Field System
- Crop Rotation
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13. Life on the Manor - Really boring Life on the Manor
- Lived and Died on the Manor
1. Positives
- Strong sense of Family/
Know what is expected
of you
2. Negatives
- Really boring
Family Composition
1. Nuclear

14. Religion

15. Religion
Religion
Impact
1. Village Church
- Community Center
2. Cult of Saints
- Saint Worship
Religion has the greatest impact on the Christian on daily life
1. Village Church
- Center of Community life
1. social, political, economic, religious
2. Cult of Saints
- this is a very big deal
1. Pray for health
2. Go to heaven
3. A lot of times veneration from a violent crime constituted a pilgrimage
- Knights always had to go
Saints are special men and women who did things here on earth that had made them so holy that they were able to intercede between people an d god
1. Virgin Mary was the most famous

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18. Those Who Fight Nobility
Aristocratic Warrior Class, who enjoyed a special legal status
Immense personal
freedom
2. Responsibility only
to his lord
- Raising troops
-Commanding troops

19. The Feudal System

20. The Castle

21. The Castle

22. Noble Men Noble Professional fighter 2. Virtue - Chivalry
1. Horseman (Knight)
- ministerials

23. Noble Boys Until 7 1. played
After 7 placed in the house of the father’s friend
1. Trained in war
2. Read Latin
3. Care for lord’s house and equipment
At about 20 Knighthood
1. Follow Chivalry
2. Travel
3. Tournaments
Anywhere between 20 and …
1. Becomes lord of the manor

24. Nobel Boys

25. Noble Girls Until 7 Played After 7 Learned to manage a house At 16
Married (husband normally in his 30s)
After 16
Managed manor house
Had Children

26. Those Who Fight Noble Life -Managerial Bound to Lord Very Political
Fighting

27. Those Who Pray Crucial service (prayer) Created an educated elite
Recruited from the upper classes
Noble children honorable and aristocratic life
Two basic types
Monks
Nuns

28. The Cathedral

29. Those Who Pray Monasteries Nuns Choir Monks - Daughters of the elite
Religious Duties
Secular Duties
Monks
Living in Monasteries
1. Life Circled around the Liturgy
Monasteries
Choir Monks
Cellarer
Lay Brothers
Almoner
Cantor
Novice Master
Abbot
Other Workers

30. Those Who Pray

31. Those Who Pray The Medieval University Scholasticism
Medieval Philosophy
- Questioning Church Doctrine

32. Those Who Pray Indiana Jones
Monasteries Become very important with combining intellectual ideas with religious
Thomas Aquinas ( )
- Faith and Reason (Summa Theologica)
- epistemology
Indiana Jones

33. Conflict and Change Gregorian Revolution - Church against State
2. The Crusades
- Christians against Muslims

34. The Gregorian Revolution
Pope Gregory VII ( )
Political authority of the papacy
“freedom of the church”
2. Crisis of lay investiture
- excommunication
The basic question
“Did the King have highest authority over everyone including the clergy, or did the Pope ?”
Is that debate still alive today?
Stem cell research - the clergy and the sex abuse cases