2. SOCIAL LIFE
The life of all the classes
was dominated by the
feudal system.
Women were seen by many
to be inferior to men during
the middle ages. The church
taught them that they
should be meek and obedient
to their fathers and
husbands.
1. Music and Dance
Musical Instruments :
Troubadours, gong etc
2. Sport and Games
Archery, Bowls, Colf,
Gameball, Hammer-throwing,
acrobat, etc
3. 1. Latin: used by educated
people: nuns and monks
2. French: used by the
Kings and Officials
3. English (Anglo-Saxon) :
used by common people
The religious spirit was the
most important thing.
Although it was struck, but
everything based on it,
even the education and
literature
Baker, Bookbinder, Farmer,
Fisherman, Forester, etc.
Many common surnames
stemmed from the
profession a person had.
4. IMPORTANT EVENTS
1. Battle of Hastings
Took place in Senlac Hill, East Sussex, England
on October, 1066
It is the beginning of Middle Ages in which William
The Conqueror of Normandy invaded England and
defeated Harold I .
2. The hundred years war
1337-1453 in Northern france
The Wars between England and France. It is began with
The claim of King Henry III to inherit the France throne
5. 3. War of roses
Happened in 1455-1485
Dynastic civil wars for the throne of two rival
branches of the Royal House of Lancaster and York
4. The black death
Started in 1328 lasted until 1351
Called as The Black Death because on of
the symptoms produced a blackening of
the skin around the swelling. was red at
first, but later turned a dark purple or
black. When a victim’s blood was let the
blood that exuded was black, thick and
vile smelling with a greenish scum mixed
in it.
6. POLITICAL LIFE
The types of Feudal System:
•The Feudal System Right of Hunting
•The Feudal System Right of Jurisdiction
•The Feudal System Right of Safe Convoy
•The Feudal System Right of Wearing
Spurs
•The Feudal System Rights of Knighthood
•The Feudal System Right of having seats
of honour in churches and Monuments
•The Feudal System Right of
Disinheritance
•The Feudal System Right of common
Feudalism was based on the oven
exchange of land for military •Feudal System Rights of Treasure Trove
•The Feudal System Right of Shipwrecks
service. It was established by
•The Feudal System Right of Shelter
William the Conqueror.
7. Feudalism in England was established by William the
Conqueror and the Normans following the defeat of
the English Anglo Saxons at the Battle of Hastings in
1066. The system and structure of feudalism had been
well established in Europe for some time and the
Normans imposed Middle Ages feudalism in England
following the Norman Conquest.
Feudalism was based on the exchange of land for military
service. King William the Conqueror used the concept of
feudalism to reward his Norman supporters for their help in
the conquest of England. Life lived under the Medieval
Feudal System, or Feudalism, demanded that everyone owed
allegiance to the King and their immediate superior.
9. MAGNA CARTA OF 1215
a document that King John of England (1166 -
What is it??? 1216) was forced into signing the charter because
it greatly reduced the power he held as the King
of England and allowed for the formation of a
powerful parliament. The Magna Carta became
the basis for English citizen's rights.
to curb the King and make him govern by the
Purpose old English laws that had prevailed before the
Normans came. The Magna Carta was a
collection of 37 English laws - some copied,
some recollected, some old and some new. The
Magna Carta demonstrated that the power of
the king could be limited by a written grant.
Drafted by Archbishop Stephen Langton and the most
powerful Barons of England
10. THE RELIGION
The lives of the Medieval people of the Middle Ages was
dominated by the church.
The period of the Dark Ages saw the growth in the
power of the Christian Church which was then referred
to as the Catholic religion.
Christians who opposed the Catholic church were
treated harshly.
Christianity then became the official religion of the
Roman Empire instead of the old Roman religion that
had worshipped many Gods.
The Catholic Church was then able to influence the kings
and rulers of Europe.
PILGRIMAGE: religious travelling to visit the relics or resting
places of revered saints, such as to Jerusalem or Rome.
11. THE HERITAGE
Troubadours :
Heddal Stave Church Mediaeval Music played by
Winchester Cathedral Gothic art
in Telemark, Norway Minstrels on Historical
Musical Instruments
St Paul's Cathedra Lincoln Cathedral Late Antique Art Romansque Art
12. THE LITERATURE
1.Heroic
The Characteristics 2.Religious
Famous Author and the Work:
1. Venerable Bede + Geoffrey of Monmouth –
King Arthur and the Knights
2. Layamon – Brut
3. Geoffrey Chaucer – Troilus and Criseyde, The
House of Fame. The Cantebury Tales
4. John Gower – Confessio Amantics,
5. William Langland – Piers Plowman
6. etc
Medieval Literature questions its society, making its readers think about the times
they live in, as well as giving us a picture f the fast-changing society of the time. The
main writing of this period was in Poetry, but the tradition of drama was beginning at
this time, too.
13. TIMELINE OF THE KINGS
Events Timeline of Middle Ages Kings
Timeline Key Dates
Timeline of England
1066-1087 King William the Conqueror
Timeline of
the Norman King William Rufus (son of
1087-1100
Kings of William)
England in
the Middle King Henry I (William Rufus
1100-1135
Ages brother)
1066 -1154 King Stephen (nephew of Henry
1135-1154
I)
14. Timeline of Middle Ages Kings of
Events Timeline Timeline Key Dates
England
1154-1189 King Henry II (grandson of Henry I)
Timeline of the The 1189-1199 King Richard I (third son of Henry II)
Plantagenet Kings of
1199-1216 King John (fifth son of Henry II)
England (Angevin Line) in
1216-1272 King Henry III (son of John)
the Middle Ages
1272-1307 King Edward I (son of Henry III)
1154 - 1377
1307-1327 King Edward II (son of Edward I)
1327-1377 King Edward III (son of Edward II)
King Richard II (grandson of Edward
1377-1399
III, son of the Black Prince)
Timeline of the Royal King Henry IV (grandson of Edward
1399-1413
Houses of Lancaster and III, son of John of Gaunt)
York - Kings of England 1413-1422 King Henry V (son of Henry IV)
in the Middle Ages 1422-1461 King Henry VI (son of Henry V)
1377 - 1485 King Edward IV ( youngest son of
1461-1483
Edward III )
1483-1485 King Richard III (uncle of Edward V)
