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The Medieval Manor!

Fields

In the Middle Ages, for farming, they used a method called the "Open Field System". Under the open-field system, each manor or village had two or three large fields, usually several hundred acres each, which were divided into many narrow strips of land. The strips were cultivated by individuals or peasant families. Each had one strip in each field because every year only two of the three fields would be used so the soil would stay fertile.

Church

A Serf's or Freeman's House

The Medieval church played a far greater role in the Middle Ages than the church does today. All Medieval people - be they village peasants or towns people -believed that God, Heaven and Hell existed. From the very earliest of ages, the people were taught that the only way they could get to Heaven was if the Roman Catholic Church let them. Everybody would have been terrified of Hell and the people would have been told of the sheer horrors awaiting for them in Hell in the weekly services they attended.

The control the Church had over people was total. Peasants worked for free on Church land and payed the tithes too. This proved difficult for peasants as the time they spent working on Church land, could have been better spent working on their own plots of land producing food for their families.

Medieval peasants lived in wattle and daub huts. The poverty of these dwellings was a sign as to where these people were on the social scale and their standing in the feudal system. The peasants house were almost always cold, damp and dark inside. Windows, when they were present, were very small openings with wooden shutters that were closed at night or when there was bad weather. The houses had thatched roofs and were easily destroyed and there was rarely more than two rooms in them.

Water Mill

The Alehouse

A watermill is a structure that uses a water wheel to drive a mechanical process such as flour production. This is what the Medieval people used it for. They used the river to drive the wheel forward and grind their grain into flour. A miller did this for them.

A tavern was a place to drink, and to eat, but it was for the more wealthy costumers as they could afford the wine a tavern offered. An inn served food and drink and also provided accommodation. But an alehouse was for the poorer people and it only served ale, no wine.

Generally speaking, alehouses were small and shabby. The majority of them were little more than a one storied cottage. They were regarded as the most inferior of the drinking and hospitality institutions.

The Commons

The Forge

The animals we have today on farms are pretty much the same as they were in Medieval times, although the breeds were different and some of the rarer breeds have since either died out or are endangered. They included cows, sheep, pigs, ducks, geese, chickens and goats. Oxen were also widely kept - these tended to disappear from Britain early in the 19th Century, although they remain in use to this day in remote parts of rural France, Spain and Italy. Horses were rare on Medieval farms - they were kept mainly for riding use in the military and most ordinary farmers could not afford them.

A blacksmith worked in the forge. He was a freeman. A blacksmith is: A smith who works in iron metal, especially by hammering it when it is hot, making iron utensils, horseshoes, weapons and repairing armor. A Blacksmith forge was a workplace where metal was worked by a blacksmith by heating and hammering via a furnace. The name of a forge was also referred to as a a smithy. A Forge wagon was a wagon fitted up for transporting a blacksmith's forge and tools.

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The Bailiff's House

A bailiff of the manor was selected by the lord of the manor. These bailiffs would oversee the lands and buildings of the manor, collecting fines and rents and acting as accountants. The bailiff was the lord's representative, and was usually an outsider, that is, not from the village. The bailiffs house was where the bailiff lived.

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What was a manor?

Who lived in the manor house?

Briefly describe a serf or freeman's house.

What was the system Medieval people used in farming called?

What was the tax that serfs and freemen had to pay to the church called?

Name 5 animals they had in the commons.

What did Medieval people use the watermill for?

There was two places that were for more wealthy people to drink in than the alehouse. What were they called?

What did a bailiff do?

What is the average amount of people that would live in a manor? You can use your iPads to find the answer!

By Sinead and Ali

The Manor House

The Manor

What exactly were Medieval Manors? A manor was the district over which a lord had domain and could control what taxes passed, and what the laws were.

Medieval Manor houses were owned by the wealthy - those who were at or near the top of the feudal system. Very few original manor houses still exist today as they were built over in the following centuries. They were built of stone and were built to last. Their size was an indication of the lords wealth. All those who worked in the manor slept in the hall except for the lord and his family. There would usually be a lot of windows in the house to let natural light brighten it up.

All lords would seek to impress other members of the nobility and the grander the manor the more self-important a lord might feel.

What were the Middle Ages?

The Middle Ages was from about AD 500 to 1500. It can also be called the Medieval Period. The Middle Ages began when the Roman Empire collapsed.

In the Manor there was always a Feudal System.

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