People in medieval times used personal and family banners and
shields to express their identity and status in society. Think of
your school logo, or the logo of a professional sports team
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The Middle Ages for Kids - Coat of Arms, Shields, Herald, Heraldry - 0 views
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Heraldry includes a family motto and a family coat of arms. The actual design of the coat of arms followed a pattern, although each was distinctive.
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As time went on, a family's heraldry was recorded so that no one could copy the pattern or take it for themselves.
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In the Middle Ages, a distinctive coat of arms was used to identify each noble family. Each item in the design had meaning.
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Once a coat of arms was adopted by a family, the design was placed on shields held by knights of the manor, embroidered on tapestries, and carved in stone throughout the castle or manor house. It was placed on swords and on banners and even burnt into the top of breads on special occasions. A family's heraldry was important. It said, "This is who we are, and we are special." That is heraldry.
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They put their coat of arms, showing their heraldry, on banners, shields, tapestries and anything else they could think of.
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The Middle Ages | Feudalism - 2 views
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Working hard did not change your status. Your clothing, food, marriage, homes, etc., were determined for you. After the rank of king, the hierarchy was the nobles, the knights, the clergy (religious people), the tradesmen and the peasants.
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Medieval Civilization: Lecture Notes - 4 views
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Three-field system was used, with one field planted in the autumn, one in the spring, and one fallow.
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feudalism was a political arrangement that provided for the performance of these functions of government by a class of landed nobles. Nobles bound by an interdependent system of personal ties; the heart was the feudal contract, which established relations between lord and vassal, the most important of which were protection and service.
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knights were to be Christian, brave, faithful, generous, and protective of women and the poor; evidence of this code may be found the French epic The Song of Roland and the Spanish El Cid.
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which supported the lord, his family, and his soldiers. Landed estate organized as manors; each a self-supporting economic unit; the lord provided the land and protection; serfs provided the labor.
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Serfs (=landless peasants) bound to the soil; could not be bought or sold individually; they passed new owners when land changed hands. Medieval farming methods primitive; yield was low
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The Middle Ages | Feudalism - 4 views
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The ideal knight was chivalrous when he possessed these virtues and qualities: Live to serve his king and his country Avoid lying, cheating or torture Believe in justice for all Respect women Avenge wrongs
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Feudal System - 4 views
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prisoner of war, his life was saved by his nobility, and his ransom had practically to be raised by the "villains" of his domains.
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which gave judicial power to the nobles and lords in cases arising in their domains, had no appeal save to the King himself.
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that it even applied itself to the lower orders, and its violation was considered the most odious crime.
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Knights had the right of receiving double rations when prisoners of war; the right of claiming a year's delay when a creditor wished to seize their land; and the right of never having to submit to torture after trial, unless they were condemned to death for the crime they had committed.
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The nobles enjoyed also the right of disinheritance, that is to say, of claiming the goods of a person dying on their lands who had no direct heir
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The right of shelter, was the principal charge imposed upon the noble. When a great baron visited his lands, his tenants were not only obliged to give him and his followers shelter, but also provisions and food, the nature and quality of which were all arranged beforehand with the most extraordinary detail.
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The Feudal System was sustained by the rights and privileges given to the Upper Classes and in most cases enacted by laws. Everything was a source of privilege for the nobles.
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villains