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in title, tags, annotations or urlMedieval education in Europe: Schools & Universities - 0 views
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It is estimated that by 1330, only 5% of the total population of Europe received any sort of education
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Even then education, as we understand it, was not accessible or even desired by everyone. Schools were mostly only accessible to the sons of high lords of the land.
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In most kingdoms in Europe, education was overseen by the church.
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Medieval Peasant Cottage - YouTube - 2 views
Inside a Medieval Castle - 1 views
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The rooms where the lord of a castle, his family and his knights lived and ate and slept were in the Keep (called the Donjon), the rectangular tower inside the walls of a castle. This was meant to be the strongest and safest place.
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The outer wall of a castle was called Bailey. This was where buildings for the castle's cattle, horses and servants lived. Some of the soldiers needed to defend the castle might live in part of the gatehouse known as the Barbican.
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Medieval Entertainment - 0 views
Medieval Wedding Traditions - 0 views
LAW IN THE MIDDLE AGES - 3 views
The Middle Ages - 2 views
Medieval Foods - 0 views
Of Monks, Medieval Scribes, and Middlemen - 0 views
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: In the early Middle Ages, the Church played a very important role in protecting ancient works, and monks were heavily involved in the “reproduction and preservation of the literature that had been inherited from earlier writers,—writers whose works had been accepted as classics.”
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The monks who were not yet competent to work as scribes were to be instructed by the others.”
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The copying of books was also slow, tedious, and very time-consuming; it took years for a scribe to complete “a particularly fine manuscript with colored initials and miniature art work.”
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Feudal System - 14 views
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Feudal SystemThe 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. They had a thousand pretexts for establishing taxes on their vassals, who were generally considered "taxable and to be worked at will." Kings and councils waived the necessity of their studying, in order to be received as bachelors of universities. If a noble was made a 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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The Feudal System Right of Hunting
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The Feudal System Right of Jurisdiction
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