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Rural & Urban Life in the Middle Ages

The City Players

Aristocratic Daily Life

Daily Life

The Country Players

  • late 10th-12th centuries = rise of cities/towns
  • burghers/bourgeois
  • artisans, craftsmen, merchants
  • dependent upon countryside for food
  • possibility to escape feudal ties
  • c. 1100 = towns receive charters of liberties (privileges)
  • some cities govern themselves (city council & mayors)
  • "men of war" (nobles & knights)
  • young boys intern with other nobles
  • attempts to govern militaristic men:
  • 11th century = "Peace of God" & "Truce of God"
  • jousting touraments
  • chivalry
  • noble women
  • ladies-in-waiting
  • inherited, managed, owned estates
  • narrow streets, houses built close together
  • bottom level of house = business
  • economic life
  • family business (nuclear family)
  • guilds come to govern trades
  • apprentice
  • journeyman
  • masters
  • single women = brewers, midwives, inherited husband's guild rights, prostitutes
  • lords: land owners, needed protection, granted fiefs to vassals
  • vassals: protected lords & lands, many became knights
  • keys:
  • occurs differently througout Europe
  • honorable reliationship b/t free men
  • subinfeudation
  • compare to arrangement of lords, serfs, villeins, & peasants

Peasant Daily Life

Social Ills of City

Who had the better life in the Middle Ages: a serf or a city artisan?

  • human and animal waste removal
  • fire & disease
  • clean drinking water hard to find (wells)
  • city councils charged with local disputes
  • crime - fines, prison, or public execution
  • life structured around seasons
  • entire household worked together
  • church = part of everyday life
  • 50+ "holy days" (holidays)
  • diet = bread, ale, legumes, & meat on special occasions
  • houses = 1-2 rooms, wooden/mud
  • Your response should include a clear thesis statement at the beginning.
  • Your response should include at least 2 pieces of supporting evidence.
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