Life During The Medieval Period

Changes are an important part of history, and a natural part of life. In the case of geography throughout history, the world has made many changes to its borders and who has grievances with one another. From the High Middle Ages of olden Europe, to the twentieth century, change has occurred. These changes have unified and broken ties between countries and regions time and time again throughout history. There are many forces that push toward and against unity throughout time. The world map became what is today because of both unity and division marking change in the past.

Life was not exactly the best for the common person during the medieval period, things seemed dark and depressing. There were a lot of health problems for people at this time; disease was spreading around like a wildfire. They didn’t have the right medical knowledge to treat or help the people so simple sicknesses were actually life threatening. It was hard for them to keep ahead of the game (having resources readily available for the future). Too many people were getting sick, there were not enough able bodies to perform all of the tasks that needed to be completed.

Living in the medieval time period was not as glamorous as it is often portrayed; peasants and serfs led hard lives, however, kings, lords, and knights lived lavishly and at the expense of those under them. In this paper you will read about all of these lifestyles, as well as the castles in which these lords and kings lived in. Mainly castle designs, fortifications, and siege tactics will be revealed to you; yet there are several sections, dealing with the lifestyles of the above mentioned, leading up to that.

During the Middle Ages, there were many revolutionary things happening. When people think of the Middle Ages, knights may come to mind. That’s because chivalry was probably one of the most important concepts of the time. There was also a plaque from 1348-1350, not to mention the church and states’ shaky relationship. Without some of the literature of this time period, there would be little understanding of the culture and lives of people during the Middle Ages. The Pardoner’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer tells how even hundreds of years ago, greed took a hold of people. Sir Gawain and The Green Knight shows how important chivalry was during this time period. The Wife of Bath depicts the importance of chivalry, too, while also telling about the struggles that women faced.

During the Medieval time period that Canterbury Tales was written in, there was a general depiction of women that they weren’t even looked at as humans, but looked at as objects. Women were thought of as weak, untrustworthy, and even less intelligent beings than men. Chaucer did not necessarily agree with the general consensus of women during the time period. Now there are tales that go along with the general impression of women, but there are also signs that Chaucer looked at women for what they really are and he might have saw them as equal beings. Chaucer was a great mind and that mind was far past his time, as he went against the tide when he wrote and he was not afraid to write whatever came to his head. Canterbury tales can show us what women had to go through in medieval times, and through Chaucer’s tales we can see what he thought of how women were were perceived and treated.

The Christian religions rise to supremacy in the middle ages was the result of several factors. Christians had long been persecuted by the Roman Empire because the Romans felt that Christianity challenged and offended the Greco-Roman Gods and the Christians were prone to revolt against Roman rule. Christianity survived because it had many teachings that appealed to the downtrodden in Roman society, these teachings being that even though they were suffering they would gain equality and possibly superiority in the next life, Christianity gave them hope.

In today’s day and age, a common view of the Medieval Era is that it was a dark period, full of non-civility and ignorance. It is a generally accepted approach to consider only the bad aspects of the time, and one either ignores or has no knowledge of the many accomplishments that occurred during this period. Although it is true that there were bad aspects about the Medieval Era, no time is without its faults, and this period in particular rose to a great height of glorious accomplishment and advancement that continues to benefit the world today. The Medieval times are commonly considered to be a time of social oppression and religious superstition, but in reality the advancements of this time clearly show that it was not a “Dark Age,” as

In medieval times, keeping order was especially difficult. Without a proper system like we have today, most of the work was left to the villagers to deal with. Justice was hard to achieve as most criminals pleaded not to be guilty, and without any evidence or witnesses it was difficult to prove that a crime had been committed.

Life in the middle ages of social life were crushed. The Feudle system of government came from an old german term of power for attending cattle, goats and sheep. Man in the dark ages felt alone in the world bcause of his limitation and had no control to fend for himself. The population was small in isolated areas without communication. The population was approximately 10 million and life in the medieval times was regulated with the farming of crops. Bad weather contributed to hunger in the community and the community had to protect each other. The lords were the owners of the land and where the peasants and vassles lived. Middle age cities were protected by walls and castles,and castles was a symbol of social, financial, and political power.

Before the Fall of the Roman Empire, in 5th century CE, Europe commanded a high degree of culture and intellectual influence. It was the Frank, King Charlemagne, crowned Roman Emperor on Christmas Day 800, who united people under the Christian church and ushered in a new order of rule, feudalism, during the Low Middle Ages (Markham, 2010, The Revolution, Napoléon, and Education). Feudalism made it difficult for anyone to rise above one’s original station. In other words, the poor remained poor. Markham also said that King Charlemagne brought back “formal learning”. Even though only the very wealthy were allowed religious schooling, by the 11th century, elite church schools were built throughout the empire. In the 13th century the University

The ultimate goal of religious life in medieval times was eternal life with Jesus Christ. Every part of life was carried out for the glory of God and done in the hopes of the second coming of Jesus. The monks aimed to establish a school solely in service of the Lord. The objective of living the religious life was to listen to the voice of God and function in obedience to Christ. The monks vowed to always seek peace and walk in the paths of Jesus through promoting justice, finding truth, and practicing patience. Clergy in the medieval times as well as in modern day seek to constantly exercise devotion to God through their daily lives.

Life for the common person was like a normal routine. The average person would go out and work on the farm to try to harvest enough food for everyone to survive. Many, if not all were very religious during the middle ages. All citizens were involved with the church and all of its activities. They were required/expected to attend other activities. I guess that's a way of showing togetherness of the town.. The church would hold activities such as feasts where one of the peasants could rest from all work for a day. Things aren’t seeming all that bad so far, right? The middle ages also had superstitions they believed in but they also knew a lot about science and earth. Everything seems normal but the common citizens home wasn’t at all great. These crusty homes were dark, damp, and cold. Probably the only benefit to their houses were the small windows that allowed the homeowners to see out but the outsiders could not see in. That’s a plus you don’t want anybody peeping into your windows all hours of the day. Anyways that’s besides the point, the social class of the middle ages were mainly peasants and it was very obvious that there was a line between them and the noble ones. I look as it as the royals ruled everything and the peasants were there to do all the work. The social classes were very separated during the fifth and sixth century. You were only equal to those that are in your

The life of peasant during the middle ages was extremely difficult. These people are the ones who had been mistreated and exploited by the upper classes. The Medieval Churches exercised dominant forces over peasant life and shaped their society. Nor the peasant, noble, or King could go against the Church due to the superior power that Religious associations held. After Charlemagne set on the throne in 800’s, the Church was constructed of two main forces: political and religious powers, which were led by the emperor and the pope respectively. These two different forces eventually ends up with a clash later on. From a perspective from the peasants,

A set point in the historical time line stands as the medieval period. The medieval period in history was the era in European history – from around the 5th to the 15th century, coming after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and preceding the start of the early modern era. This historical time period has been long since been the victim of film directors and romantic novelists, which has lead to the common, but false, idea of the medieval period consisting of knights and damsels in distress, wizards and dragons, and castles and battles. Although mainly wrong in most parts and being highly historically inaccurate – some aspects of the dramatic works do play true to the original time period.

The Medieval Ages that descended upon the Europeans following the deconstruction and devolution of the formerly grand institutions of the Roman Empire left a world darkened to the eyes of history. The world lost touch with simple concepts to a modern history student of writing, economy, culture, and government—the mainstay of that which we cannot see ourselves without—civilization. What was left of Europe was a state of chaos. In all other periods of human history I have studied there were similarities among them from which I could draw conclusions upon the condition of the respective times. The Text helped to give order to the progression of European history from the ancient to the modern drawing