Where did most people live in the middle ages?

Answer 1

1st Answerthey lived in the villages. in small dark and damp houses. 2nd AnswerDuring the Early Middle Ages, most people lived on manorial estates. Most people were farmers on the estates, and they were called serfs. The estates had villages on them, and the serfs usually lived in them, but the villages were very small, as they were homes to only the serfs. Later, during the High Middle Ages and, to an even greater extent, during the Late Middle Ages, many of the serfs moved to towns and cities.

The country and village cottages serfs lived in were small, usually of a single room. They typically had dirt floors, and the walls were either of stone or of woven reeds called wattle hung on a wooden frame. The stone or wattle was chinked or plastered with a mud mixture called daub. The roofs were often thatched of bundles of reeds. There were few windows, and those that existed were not glazed. Since chimneys had not yet been invented, there were no fireplaces, though there could be hearths or an area in the middle of the floor where a fire could be lit. The smoke went out a hole in the roof or holes high in the walls.

Towns offered the working class people accommodations that were hardly better, and possibly worse. The people who lived on elevated floors did not have heat unless they had braziers, which many could not afford, and the rooms were smaller. Very likely they had no cooking facilities whatever, and this has been shown by inventories of possessions of people who died; nearly none of the poor had pots, pans, or other cooking tools.

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Answer 2

In small villages and farming areas, or as serfs on a manor controlled by a lord (feudalism).

Urbanization did not start until the Renaissance, the Enclosure Movement, and the development of the factory system.

Answer 3

Townspeople lived in regular homes, with a little bit of furnishing. They probably had small stools and tables.

Answer 4

Most people were farmers who lived on manors. They mostly lived in hamlets and villages.

Other people lived in monasteries, towns, and cities.

Answer 5

serfs