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Created small communities

Feudal System Land grants or fiefs were rewarded by kings

What I Learned About the Topics

Manors had churches, Manors are castles Use communities for where defense , villages people lived and farm land

Manors had few visitors Serfs were the lowest The king offered the people in society along surfs protection for and were isolated working in his land with villans
There are many rooms in the manors They had storage rooms that branched out from large kitchens. These walled cities became known as bourgs,Burghs Then the inhabitants became known as bourgeois. Spanish had stout and formal wall paintings italys were closer to Byzantiummore influenced.

Manor Life

Manor houses were The manor housed the some manors had built apart from the moats and were lord and his family large villages A feature in There is always a Chapels were also in England was great hall in the manors manors manor house

Medieval villages Many of the villages Viking invasions consisted of mainly depended on the were a major threat farmers. village for to medieval towns. protection. Medieval Towns Most were born, To protect Tanner Duncan Every village had a toiled, married, had themselves lord and that doesnt children, and died inhabitants began mean the lord lives in the same village. building walls in the village. around the village. Critical aspects of medieval life is Medieval painting religious art were religious Not many wall paintings have survived

Art

Wondering scholars Early literature was Many of the books and poets traveled to from this time were Books were very Literature Tanner hand copied by different places to monks. bound together by prized possessions. Duncan learn new writing hand. styles. In church services Organs and bells The organs of the In churches you sing with out were in some bag pipe can be could find the instrumental Music churches traced back to organstrum and accompaniment was ancient civilization symphonys a part.

Some instruments were fiddles, Bagpipes and nackers ,and hurdyhurdies were trumpets played by them.

The most popular Ballad songs told singers were singers stories. who sang love songs

Architecture (Include Castles!)Tanner Duncan

The Motte and bailey architecture were made first of timber then of stone.

Square castle keeps or towers were replaced with round ones.

Then the regular The faults of the solid walls were design plans were replaced with hollow addressed by King walls. Edward I

Defensive additions were made to the Norman castles A concentric castle castle such as The early medieval were replaced with is a castle within a murder holes, architecture was concentric castles. castle. barbican, called Romanesque. crenellations, and arrow loops.