Growing Up In Medieval England

Medieval Society had a monarchy system where the city is and the church is separated and there were also a clear cut lines between the class of Nobles, Knights, Damsel and Peasants as well. (Terry Jones Videos & Williams Notes). In reality, life during the medieval times were more than just simple farm life for the peasants while lords administer laws from kings (William Notes). Their society was corrupted, dishonest and mad, people seek for more power (Terry Jones; Kings, Knights), every man was for himself, seeking one way or another to escape the burden, the hardship in their lives while some turn to religion other turns to booze for help (McKay 291 &Terry Jones; Damsel). In addition to diseases and plagues that were quite common because the small cities were rarely look after (McKay 307).

A woman in medieval times was not considered a person, but property. A woman would be forced to wear layers of drab clothing, the style determining their social class ranking. A woman of wealth would wear decadent gowns and women in poverty would wear plain spun dresses. Their goal in life was to find a husband, to give in to his whims and be the epitome of submission. Sometimes, peasant girls would be forced to take up a trade prior to marriage. After the marriage, she was forced to give up this trade, the skill she possessed, and either maintain the lifestyle as a housewife, or help her husband with his trade. In regards to whom a woman married, there was little to no choice in the matter. Often, girls were married to strange men, men they

Let 's start with where we would be as children in London. The boys would be at a school getting a public education; the girls would be at home getting a private education from a tutor. Although a girl 's education would usually include reading and arithmetic, most of her schooling was learning how to become a proper lady. If you were wealthy though, girl or boy, you would have a private tutor at your home with a more broad range of topics. There are three main

Every nation is influenced from a source in some way shape or form. This is human nature, the trait is relevant and important in expanding and creating new ventures. For every cause, there is an effect. History is a great example of this, if one thing failed to occur history would be different as we know it. The proof is in the pudding when England and America are brought up in the same air. it is evident England was responsible for Americas solid foundation. We see this in the early stages of America, from the way they dressed all the way to language. Without this country, there would be no America.

According to the law, at the age of twelve the girls could marry; most of the time it was uncommon to marry at age 12 unless they were considered nobility. Peasant boy children at this age stayed at home and continued to learn and develop domestic skills and husbandry. Urban children moved out of their homes and into the homes of their employer, or master, depending on their future plans. Noble boys learned skills in arms, and noble girls learned basic domestic skills. The end of childhood and entrance into adolescence was marked by leaving home and moving to the house of the employer or master, entering a university, or into church service leaving their family behind.

“Women taught their daughters how to manage households and care for children, and girls learned these skills by helping their mothers. They would learn how to cook, clean, spin, weave, and make clothing” (Education 2). While the boys worked with their father to learn tools for the future the girls did the same thing with their mothers, but unlike the boys, girls also learned other things. “Middle class girls were taught reading, writing, arithmetic and skills like sewing by their mothers” (Lambert 1). Even though peasant girls were also taught basic skills like reading and writing, learning skills to use in the home was much more important because those were skills they used to live.

Now back in the Renaissance, things were definitely not fair! Boys just had it better than girls. They had more options to make it out. Girls were not even offered an education, that is how much they had to play the role of housewife(Rabb 1993). It was hard to get girls into school because of how big the household would be, money doesn’t go to everyone especially when you are down in hierarchy like women in the Renaissance. Girls between twelve to fifteen years of age were already married. That marriage would be just like what her and her dad was like. That’s kind of weird, little bit disgusting.

The monarch in medieval times had a busy schedule he went to church meetings and figure out laws, hunting and lead his military. The peasants would wake up with the reeve (manor supervisor), assigning them tasks for the day (men). Women stayed at home, tending to the chores (e.g. milking cows, cooking, washing, feeding livestock, weeding the garden, or getting water from the well). Peasant children worked and helped their mothers and couldn’t go to school therefore they were not educated. It was unfair how kings and peasants didn't have equal jobs because the peasants had hard duties to accomplish and severe consequences were executed if they refused to do them. The king need to make sure everything was in order and that everyone he trusted with land was loyal. They both had a short amount of free time. The daily tasks of the peasants and kings were difficult as they didn't have a break, were

During this time, England was a highly Patriarcherial society. With the exception of Queen Elizabeth I, the head of the house was a man, the overlord was a man, and even the estates were inherited by the firstborn son. It did not matter if there were three or four girls before a male birth; that male would inherit (Smith 65). Therefore an aristocratic boy would be educated in Latin and reading; a peasant would become an apprentice

Life in the Middle Ages was hard, especially for serfs, and few people could read or write. During the years of the Roman Empire, the soldiers of the emperor protected the poor people. Then when the empire fell, there were no laws protecting them, so they turned to the lords to keep the peace and to act on their behalf. This willingness of the poor people to be ruled by the lords led to the beginning of Feudalism. Some peasants, poor people, were free, but most became serfs, slaves, to the lord. Serfs generally lived in communities that were ruled by the local nobles. They could not marry or even leave the manor without the lord’s permission. Serfs did all the work on the manor farm and all serfs worked: men, women, and children. They worked in the fields, cared for animals, built and cared for buildings, made clothing, and everything else that required manual labor. There were also servants who worked in the manor doing the cooking, cleaning, laundering, and other household jobs. Serfs

Medieval life was all about the feudal system, which is basically classes meaning the higher class like the royalty, clergy and the nobles. Then comes the middle class as the workers, trade men and ect. After comes the lowest class which people basically treated like nothing, so those people would be the beggars and peasants. This lifestyle is quit a horrible way to live, by treating people equally

Life was very different for different people in 16th century England. There were mostly two different types of people and they are the rich and poor also known as the gentlemen and the yeomen and being ether determined a lot about your life. To begin, the life of a poor girl and a poor boy was very different. In the text, “As for girls, in a rich family a tutor usually taught them at home. In a middle class family, their mother might teach them. Upper class and middle class women were educated. However lower class girls were not.” (Lambert) This shows that the life of a poor girl and poor boy is very different because boys almost always had education and if a girl was poor she got no education. To continue, a poor boy and a poor girl’s life

Medieval Europe is often discussed as a whole, but despite its connection, it is far from homogenous. Although each country had its individual differences, it is helpful to divide Medieval Europe into the High and Low Countries. The Low Countries had a high degree of urbanization from the textile industry. In addition to the high level of urbanization, the Low Country was remarkably literate. This was especially notable because it also applied largely to women of higher and middle social strata. Women also made up the majority of the population. Elementary schools were usually co-educational, and even when it was not, there was no indication that the instruction provided was any different. In higher education however, a gender gap was prevalent. Some schools existed for girls, but the instruction was not as good. However, the meer existence of those schools proves that there was a demand for them.

Another aspect of the Middle Ages worth raising were the roles of men and women. Women had little-to-no purpose in the Middle Ages except for taking care of the children and doing field work. They weren’t allowed to leave the house, even for aristocratic women, and they had to follow their husbands wholeheartedly or else they would be beaten, or worse,

There were virtually no girls taught in early medieval England. If taught anything at all, the girls would nearly always be sent to a nunnery. There were a few exceptions of a girl being put in a legitimate school, but the parents would have needed to be extremely wealthy and powerful. On top of that, the girl would still only be taught a few select courses (Havlidis, 2015). More often than not, if a family was wealthy enough to have schooling for their daughter they would just hire a personal tutor or pass on their own education to her (Trueman, 2015). Private schools, as in a school at someone’s home ran by that home-owner, would allow girls in more and more, especially near the end of the middle-ages when women’s education was starting to become more and more accepted (Havlidis, 2015).