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Children didn't have chores they had work. By the time a child was 7 or 8 years old they were working or being trained for a job they would hold the rest of their lives. A noble child may begin his knight training at 7 or 8 or a noble girl would all ready be given in a marriage contract by her family and sent to the in laws to learn her position. A child born a serf (slave) would stay a slave and a peasant child would start working the land with his father as soon as they could walk. People were babies and then they were grown. There was no "teens" (this won't happen until the 1940's) and people worked hard and died young. If someone lived to 40 years old they were old, so there wasn't a lot of time for play.
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What kind of work were most people involved in during the middle ages?
During the Middle Ages, most people were farmers.
What were weavers of the middle ages?
weavers were people that would transform the fiber into threads and then weave those threads into the cloth. cloth would be sold to taylors in cities, or directly to the citizen, to create clothes. however, not everyone could affort a Taylor and most more modest houses would have their maid or wifes / daughters do this kind of work.
What was good about the middle ages?
There were a lot of good things about the Middle Ages. And many of the things we think of as bad were not real.People of the middle ages were rather clean, for the most part. The idea that they were dirty and smelly might have come from Hollywood, or it might have been a self congratulatory myth created in the Renaissance, but the medieval people believed that the attention a person put into keeping his body clean was an indication of how he attended to the needs of his soul; cleanliness is next to godliness. They also believed that bad air spread disease, so it was important not to let things get smelly. (please see link on bathing below)Contrary to popular myth, medieval people were not particularly superstitious. Witch hunts, for example, did not really begin to happen a lot until the Renaissance and later times. The legal codes of Charlemagne and some of the Germanic tribes forbade even believing in witches, and made burning people for witchcraft a capital crime. (please see the link below on witch hunts)There were great advances in science and mathematics during the Middle Ages, and some of these must have been quite exciting. Some of them were simple matters of inventive engineering, such as the 11th century invention of the chimney, which made it possible for the first time in history to have a real fireplace (believe it or not). Arabic numerals came into use, so, for example, you could divide 247 by 19 to get 13, instead of dividing CCXLVII by XIX to get XIII. Advances in agriculture improved efficiency on farms enormously, making cities larger and more numerous than they could be under the Roman Empire. (please see the link on medieval technology, below)Some really great art and architecture was done in the Middle Ages. We have a myth that the Germanic tribes, for example, were made up of rude, destructive people, and seem to want to believe they had no culture of value. The artwork in the shoulder clasp found at Sutton Hoo is a magnificent example of jewelry that shows, by itself, how wrong this myth actually is. Gothic art and architecture is renowned. So is Byzantine art, and so is the Romanesque. (please see the link below on medieval art)The Middle Ages saw the development of musical styles and genres that were very advanced and very important culturally. The development of written music, taking into account relative pitch and timing, meant that for the first time, music could be composed in notation that we can decipher today. Polyphony developed into the richest form it had ever seen with medieval counterpoint. And the minstrels, troubadours, jongleurs, gleemen, and other bards, spread both the music and the culture behind it throughout Europe. Both for the musician, and for the listener, these were exciting times. (please see the link below on medieval music)The literature of the Middle Ages grew apace. There was always interest in theology, as people remain aware. But secular literature developed also. Taliesin, the Welsh poet, worked in the 6th century. Beowulf was an great Anglo-Saxon epic. Other literature developed, but in the High Middle Ages, there was a cultural blossoming that was quite remarkable. Fostered by such people as Duke William IX the Troubadour of Aquitaine, and his granddaughter, Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine, who was also Queen of France and Queen of England, medieval literature took on new character. Stories that had already begun to be told were woven into cycles we still remember today, such as the stories of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. Thomas Malory wrote Le Morte d'Arthur, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, and Dante wrote The Divine Comedy, all in the Middle Ages. (please see the link below on medieval literature)Now, if you are quite attentive and knowledgeable, and if you check the reference below on medieval literature, you will notice something very puzzling. The reference says, "Since Latin was the language of the Roman Catholic Church, which dominated Western and Central Europe, and since the Church was virtually the only source of education, Latin was a common language for Medieval writings, even in some parts of Europe that were never Romanized." Now this seems really strange in light of one thing; none of the works mentioned in the paragraph above was in Latin. And this points to a Great but Secret Truth about the Middle Ages: "Sometimes History is Wrong." The neat thing is that enough clues exist to tell us what the truth is, and why it is misunderstood. Education was not all from the Catholic Church. Secular education existed and was promoted by governments. Consider the following: First, in the year 700 AD, a school called the Beverley Grammar School was opened in Northumbria, supported by the state, not the church. The area it was in passed under control of Vikings for several decades, but the school remained open. When the Viking Danelaw was united with England, the school remained open, and it remains open to this day, as the sixth oldest school in England. (please see the link below to the list of the oldest schools in the world) Second, King Alfred the Great promoted education and started schools. His stated policy goal was to provide education to all who were free men (peasants not bound to the soil) or of higher rank in English. He subsidized the translation of great books into English, so ordinary people could read them. (please see the link below to an article on King Alfred the Great) The clear lesson is that there was a lot going on culturally that historians do not focus on much, and one such thing is that our ideas about medieval education are very much out of line with reality.Even if we focus on the lives of the poor serfs, we can find some good to discuss. It is true that serfs were not rich (at least not usually), and it is true that they lacked a right to move off the manorial estate on which they lived without permission of their lord. But the idea that they were abused slaves is not true, the idea that they had no rights is not true, and the idea that their lives were uniformly miserable is, obviously, not true. Consider this: in many places, in many times, a serf who ran off the manor was considered free, if he could stay away for a year. We might wonder why a person would not prefer freedom. The penalty, if one was caught, was not severe, and yet most serfs did not run away. The answer to this puzzle lies in the fact that the serf was not without rights, he had a right to a place to live, he had a right to fields to work, and he had a right to protection. These rights could not be alienated by a lord arbitrarily. If the manor was sold, the serfs still had a right to live there, and the new lord had to respect that. The serfs who ran away gave up those rights, and had to fend for himself. I know a few people today who might want to give up the right to move away with out permission, if it meant that they had a permanent job, a permanent place to live, and protection. (please see the link below on serfdom)Ultimately, in the Middle Ages, one thing could be relied on, and that was the Church. The Church provided more than just salvation for the soul. It also provided the best health care people could get, and even when that meant nothing more than a bed, meals, a prayer, and a kind word, it was much better than the common alternative. The Church provided ecclesiastical courts that were more merciful than secular courts, were not permitted to torture anyone, and could be appealed to by anyone who could read the 51st Psalm, the standard test for literacy. The Church provided sanctuary for fugitives, whether it was a serf woman fleeing her husband, a Queen fleeing her husband, or an ordinary felon (who might only get sanctuary for a period of a few weeks, but it gave him time to repent, and possibly to learn to read the 51st Psalm). (please see the link below on the medieval right of asylum)
Was there school during Medieval Times?
AnswerNo. About 90% of the population couldn't read or write. Those who did were taught/tutored by monks and these were the nobility. AnswerFor most children, there was no school, just chores. But there were many schools, of several different types. We do not have a lot of records about the openings and closings of schools during the Middle Ages, but there were schools opened in medieval times that remain open today. There were some schools that remained in operation from antiquity. Cor Tewdws (Theodosius College), in Wales, for example, was opened before the Romans withdrew from Britain, and remained open until after the Middle Ages ended. It was closed by the English King Henry VIII.Some schools of ancient Rome relocated to safer places when the Germanic peoples invaded, and stayed in operation. There were medical schools in Velia that relocated to Salerno as the Roman Empire was collapsing; they were united to form the Salerno Medical School in the Early Middle Ages, possibly during the 10th century, and are now the University of Salerno.In the East Roman Empire, a system of primary education was founded in 425, as were institutions of advanced education in Constantinople and other cities. The primary education operated at the village level, and was intended to teach free men, though it also taught a number of women. These remained open until the Byzantine Empire fell in 1453.The oldest school in the world is the King's School in Canterbury, Kent, England. It was opened in 597. Visigoths in Spain opened at least one school that we know of before that date, but of course it did not last through the disruptions of the ages.The Beverley Grammar School, which opened in 700, is the oldest state run school in the world. It survived several decades during which the territory it was in was governed by Vikings. Vikings also had at least some other schools, as the oldest school in Iceland was opened in 1056, before the end of the Viking Age.Latvia's oldest school was opened in Riga in 1211, only ten years after the city was first settled as a village.The policies of King Alfred the Great of England are particularly interesting in regard to education. He made it a goal to see that every freeman in England who was capable of being educated be taught to read and write in English. The language of the Church was Latin, so Alfred's desire to use the vernacular is a clear indication that he perceived a need for secular primary education. Nor was the education to be limited to the nobility, as he specified all freemen. He also underwrote the translation of great books from Latin into English so they could be read by people with no Latin. He saw to it that his own children were educated in everything from letters to warfare, including his daughters. One of his daughters ruled her own kingdom in central England as its sovereign queen for a number of years, and was said to be a formidable tactician who kept the Vikings at bay.A total of over 70 schools in Europe date to times before the end of the fifteenth century. In addition, 70 universities opened during that time. The early universities were formal institutions that replaced earlier, less formal, groups of schools for higher education in the same cities, most of which are unrecorded.Two related links below are to lists of schools surviving since the Middle Ages and universities founded in the Middle Ages. There is also a link to the section of an article on Alfred the Great where his educational policies are discussed.During the High Middle Ages, as the merchant class was rising, Arabic numerals were introduced to Europe. As their inherent advantages became obvious, the merchants wanted to learn how to use them, and to have their children taught as well. The result was a new kind of school, called an abacus school. In such a school, the children of merchants were taught mathematics, but they were also taught reading and writing in their own languages.
What kind of clothes did people wear in the Middle Ages?
The queens and kings wore fancy clothing. Queens= long dresses, crown/tiara, and nice shoes. She was always presentable. Kings= fancy robes/cloaks. A large crown. Always looked his best. Servants= tunics, hip height belts, plain. hat to protect eyes from the sun, Normal citizen=wore a long sleeve tunic, about shin length, under a short sleeve tunic. usually shades of brown, nothing like pink or anything. Belt, hip height. comfortable shoescows
What kind of chores do kids from Kenya do?
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What kind of toys were there in the middle ages?
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What kind of work were most people doing in the middle ages?
During the Middle Ages, most people were farmers.
What kind of work were most people involved in during the middle ages?
During the Middle Ages, most people were farmers.
What kind of food did the colonists eat in new york in the middle ages?
Colonists weren't in New York during the middle ages!
What kind of chores that the sumerians architect will do?
What kind of chores that the sumerians architect will do?
What was the word meaning kind and polite in the middle ages?
The same as today.
What kind of government did France have in the middle ages?
France was a feudal monarchy.
What are you called if you were kind and polite during the middle ages?
If you were kind an polite, you might be called chivalrous.
What kind of punishments did they had in the middle ages?
the death penalty or hung to death basically.
What kind of jobs did children do in the middle ages?
to grow up and mature and be adults
What kind of shoes did kids wear in the Middle Ages?
Most people of the Middle Age wore what is called turnshoes, and this included kids. They were made from soft leather and tied with a lace on one side. They were very light and simply made, and most were home made. There is a link to an article on turnshoes below, with an illustration.
