Medieval Times Feudalism was a set of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries Feudalism Barons rank below viscounts ID: 514568
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Cornwall
Medieval TimesSlide2
Feudalism was a set of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries.
Feudalism
:Slide3
Barons rank
below
viscounts, and form the lowest
rank in the nobility.
Baron:Slide4
The
manor
:
A manor is an estate in land to which is incident the right to hold a
court named
court baron, that is to say a manorial court. Slide5
The
peasants
:
A peasant is an agricultural worker who generally works land owned or rented by/from a noble, but is classified socioeconomically above a squire with regards to the era. Slide6
The
knihgt
:
A knight was a member of a class of lower nobility in the High Middle Ages.They were seen as the perfect romantic gentlemen.Slide7
The High Middle Ages saw an explosion in population. This population flowed into towns.
The
townSlide8
A guild was an association of craftsmen in a particular trade. The earliest types of guild were formed as confraternities of workers.
The
guilds:Slide9
A monastery was a place of pilgrimage for many people.
A
pilgrim is a
traveller who takes a journey to a Holy Place.
Monasteries
and pilgrims:Slide10
At the beginning of the middle ages, medicine started to develop. During the 14
th
and 15
th century, with the appearance of Black death, a lot of people stop believing in medicine. They thought it was a God’s punishment.
Medicine:Slide11
The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history. Thought to have started in China, it travelled along the Silk Road and reached
Europe by 1346.
More
than 1/3 of the European population
died because of the Black Death
.Black
Death
:Slide12
The plot
is
about a group of pilgrims on a journey
to
Canterbury. Each one tells a different
story.Most of the tales are written in verse,
but
some
of
them
are in
prose.Chaucer himself is one of the characters in the book.The Canterbury TalesSlide13
Influence:
Structurally, the collection resembles
The Decameron of Boccaccio, which Chaucer may have come across during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372.Slide14
The Canterbury Tales has the
same
structure as the Decameron.There are
two
different types of background:The
meeting: When people chat.
The
stories
:
Each
person tells a different story on the way to thecathedral and on the way back Structure: