The Middle Realms : The Village Of The Middle Realms

his friends are in danger. He goes to save them against Yoda's warning and not

In the story, a young boy, an orphan who lives

Life in the high middle ages, between 1000 and 1300 A.D., had two kinds of communities, manorial villages and towns. The major difference in these two distinct types of communities was the freedom and rights of the people. In the manorial villages you had lords who owned large portions of land. The vassals who entered into a military obligation with the lords, in exchange for land and protection. Finally, serfs who were a class of people that worked their lord’s land as half slave and half freeman. Vassals were more of an employee and the serfs were little more than a slave because they were bound to the lord’s land. The serfs could not leave or do anything without the lord’s permission and most of the time they had to pay fees to be granted the permissions they requested. In contrast the townspeople elected their officials, had freedom to choose a careers, they move about where they liked, and could acquire training and schooling. Townspeople were in fact free and not absolutely controlled by a lord. As for the manorial villages, the lords had all the power and had absolute control over all the actions and work of the vassals and serfs.

I woke up looking around not knowing what was going on. I looked around realizing that I was in an unknown bed. Panicking at first I tried to find my bearings, but I calmed down quickly as I watched my mother walk into the room.

I jolted up and looked around, it's my bedroom.. It was a dream. Why would I have a dream like that? I'm not sure.

Outnumbered and unprepared, the villagers do their best to defend their home against a well-resourced enemy.

The rise of towns in the late middle ages had a direct effect on the feudal system in the middle ages. As agricultural practices improved production of crops was accomplished with less labor this allowed farmers to turn their attention to other endeavors which allowed them to make more money. The noble class was forced to sell the peasants their freedom so they could fund the crusades, pay loans and buy luxury items. The peasants not being tied to the farm, produced goods that could be sold at the local market place which gave many the funds to by their freedom. The market place where they sold these goods was located along trade routes, towns evolved from these market places. With the ability to buy their freedom most of the peasants moved to these growing towns looking for work. Most had

For most of us, the village is our entire world. We were born here and will live here our entire lives, hardly venturing more than a few miles beyond. We need not go anywhere else because we have almost everything we need right here. Village craftsmen make shoes, tools, building materials, and furniture, and we grow our food. The only things we must bring in are salt and a few iron tools and utensils.

Villagers and townsfolk made up ninety percent of the population, as such much of the conflict and crimes were amongst these people. While, physical and cultural environments differed throughout England, traditional divisions were between the champion (open field) and the woodlands, with champion, being the most common settlement and agricultural pattern. Populations of towns varied widely, similarly the amount of land and wealth held by families varied considerably. Not as many distinct differences between the freemen and serfs, freemen had more liberty to move around, but everyone was bound into tithing groups. However, villages did have social stratification, between the lay individuals, church officials and the nobles. These interlocking

Everyone in the world has had at least one dream in their lifetime. Most people don’t think much about the dreams they have, unless they are recurring. Most people today wake up from a dream or nightmare saying, “thank heaven that was a dream,” or “too bad that was just a dream.” Many times these dreams or nightmares have more meaning than we think.

Last night it was a different dream, not a good one but better then the room dream. That's what I call it, where Grandma’s body is cold and lifeless. I call it the room dream cause i've memorized every detail of room 323B at Chicago Mary Hospital. The way the lights gave off a pale glow and the cords to the paddles swung. The pressed in area of the bed showed that it had been used yet no one was there, no one in the room. But last night was different it was a different room from what i could tell, not in the hospital either, just a black room and one tiny red flickering light above, but there was water on the floor. It kept seeping through the bottoms of the walls. Getting higher and higher until it was up to my neck, then i woke up.

Now I don’t know if you ever dream while you sleep, but I sure do. I had a weird dream. I was lying down, kinda like I was just getting up from my nap, and I saw Pap. Luckily, I saw him before he saw me. I just barely managed to sneak out that cave. Then he saw me. His eyes widened and his jaw dropped. He just stood there for a second. Then he took off at me and we both started running. “You git your ruddy little but over her, you ungrateful spoilt child!” he screamed, and I realized he was starting to gain on me. We kept running, jumping over bushes, and then I tripped on a root. I went sprawling . My pap has me by my shirt collar. He’s screaming in my face. “What d’ y’ think yer doing, y’ ungrateful scum! Runnin’ ‘way like dat! You think yer so cool like dat, don’t ya! You get yer ruddy but over her and Ima give ya a spankin!

I jolted awake in fear. I had a dream. A weird dream. A vivid dream. It was full of people shouting and bright flashes of light. It was confusing yet clear, like some part of me understood it. I didn’t know it would be important then but now I know. How? Well, it happened like this…

When one thinks of the word medieval, there appear to be almost an instantaneous reaction. Some may see the period associated with the gothic architecture, Crusades, brutalism, death, the Black Plague, illiteracy, or the Dark Ages. Others may interpret the period as one full of valiant knights, princesses waiting to be saved, jousting, castles, and noble kings and queens. From video games such as The Legend of Zelda and the popular HBO television series A Game of Thrones, to accounts of medieval torture or treatment in the newspapers, the Middle Ages seems to be more relevant than ever. However, it can be argued that much about what we know about the real Middle Ages was constructed in the nineteenth century due to a comparative lack of records and the imaginative portrayal of the period by the Victorians. Due to the tumultuous period that was the Industrial Revolution, many social critics and artists turned back to the Middle Ages in order to reflect their anxieties of the present and the hopes and expectations of the future. I began to note that the medievalist movement was built upon medieval studies through a desire to create, rather than retrieve the past, which in turn lead to academic debates about authenticity and furthered the tension between the two fields leading to an almost insurmountable break. Those in medieval studies look towards medievalism as a misguided attempt to contemplate history which in turn changed the public’s understanding towards the era away

I dreamt of you and Mxolisi. He pushed you and watched you fall into a hole. - We must ask MaMlambo to cleanse this house. - Forget it.