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England
in the 14th century
Time
The Church was the Roman Catholic Church.
Churches were places of sanctuary (where Crispin first hides
and is safe).
Formal time for prayers dominated the day (in the book:
prime, matins, compline).
The Church had so much power because it was believed
to be the authority on matters of a person's admittance
to heaven or hell.
Also, kings were believed to have the divine right to govern.
For safety and for defense, people in the Middle Ages formed small communities around a central lord or master. Most people lived on a manor, which consisted of the castle, the church, the village, and the surrounding farm land. These manors were isolated, with occasional visits from peddlers, pilgrims on their way to the Crusades, or soldiers from other fiefdoms.
In this "feudal" system, the king awarded land grants or "fiefs" to his most important nobles, his barons, and his bishops, in return for their contribution of soldiers for the king's armies. At the lowest echelon of society were the peasants, also called "serfs" or "villeins." In exchange for living and working on his land, known as the "demesne," the lord offered his peasants protection. (http://www.learner.org/interactives/middleages/feudal.html)
*1381 Peasant's Revolt*
-Peasants believed that Christ
was the only Lord (preachings by
John Wycliff)
-Scriptures were the only authority
-John Ball (in the novel, a local
agitator) advocated social equality
Found Poetry
Recommendation
A good Prezi response
to literature
(Your Project)
Feudalism
From p. 15:
"Our lives never changed, but went round the rolling years beneath the starry vault of distant Heaven. Time was the great millstone, which ground us to dust like kerneled wheat. The Holy Church told us where we were in the alterations of the day, the year, and our daily toil. Birth and death alone gave distinction to our lives, as we made the journey between the darkness whence we had come to the darkness where we were fated to await Judgment Day. Then God's terrible gaze would fall on us and lift us to Heaven's bliss or throw us down to the everlasting flames of Hell."
Religion
Revolt
Music
Plague
-Began in the early 1330s
-Known as the "Black Death" and
"Great Mortality"
-Nearly 1/3 of Europe perished
(approx. 25 million people)
-Led people to search for meaning...why?
The Author
Other Avi novels you would know:
Nothing But the Truth, Poppy, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Created by Ms. Pangle
The story