Zusammenfassung der Ressource
THE MIDDLE AGES
- Feudal system- the name given to the system of land ownership in the middle ages
- Fief- an area of land which the king granted a lord, in return the lord promised to fight for the king
- motte- a man made hill on which a castle was built
- bailey- the courtyard of a medival castle
- moat- a deep ditch dug around the walls of a castle
- keep- a large square tower
- portcullis-an iron hate which could be lowered over the entrance of a castle during an attack
- turret- a small tower built on a castle wall
- barbican - a defensive gatehouse at the entrance of a castle
- Fosterage- a common practice in the middle ages whereby the children of the lord and lady of the castle were sent to other noble families to supervise their upbringing
- Hawking- a form of haunting whereby birds of prey are trained to hunt for small animals
- Manor- the land owned by a lord
- dmense- the land retained by the lord for his own worse
- squire- the second stage of a knights training,squires accompanied fully trained kinight and learned to fight with real weapons
- page- the first stage of a knights training. young boys were taught manners and basic fighting skills
- Toournament- contest between knights
- jousting- a contest in which two knights on horseback charge at eachother with a lance in an attempt to unseat their opponent
- chivalry- a code of conduct for knights
- open field system- a system i which the land in the village was divided into three large fields and then divided into different strips, which were farmed by the serfs
- serf- a pesant who was not alloud to leave the village without the lords permission
- Tithe- every year the serfs had to give one tenth of their crop to the parish preiest to pay for the upkeep of the church
- potage- a vegetable stew
- Charter- a list of rules for a medival town or city
- toll- money that had to be paid in order to trade in a medival town
- Curfew; once darkness came, townspeople had to extinguish all fires
- Guild; an orginisation for craft workers which had strict rules for all its members
- pillory- a medival form of punishment where an offendors hands and head were locked in a wooden frame
- Sanctuary- a place of refuge from the law whithin curch grounds
- cloister- a walled, enclosed area in a monastry where monks prayed
- Abbot- the monk in charge of the monastery
- Tonsure- the shaving of the crown of a monks head
- Chapter house- where monks held daily meetings
- Refectory- the dining room in a monastry
- Infirmarian- a monk that looked after the sick
- Almoner-a monk that looked after visitors and distributed food to the poor
- Black death- a mediival plague