The Medieval Times

The medieval times were in the time between Roman Empire

and the renaissance. The medieval times were a part in the
middle ages. There were when knights and castles were around.
This was the age before the dark ages. The dark ages were
another part of the middle ages. I am going to tell you about food,
families, weapons and armour, and language that were used or
that were in the medieval times.

Food
The food that the people in the castles and towns ate was
mostly what they could harvest on the farms. Some of the things
they eat are cheese from the cows, bread and a lot of other grains
like rice, seeds and meat from the older or weaker cows and pigs.
They drink, milk, water and ail. A lot of people who raid towns and
villages for food steal much food but it doesn’t really affect the
stock.

Families
The families are definitely not as rich as people now. The
most important person that is in the family is the man. They are
the only ones who worked. They usually work cooking in the
keeps or fighting in the infantry. They usually have one or two
children. Most of the people in the infantry are a lot richer than
everyone else.
 Weapons and armour
Most of the people that are in the infantry use a variety of
weapons and armours. The set up for a lot of leather armour is
light clothing then chain mail which is linked chains to stop lighter
weaponry. Finally they have a thick layer of leather clothing over
it. The armour for swordsmen was heavier with chain mail and
also 3 or 4 layers of heavy steel. Some weapons were swords,
daggers knives and short swords, maces and chain maces. They
have shields to block and bows and crossbows for longer range.

Language
There was a time in Latin Europe where the people spoke
old English. The people called it Anglo-Saxon. It was like our
English but a tiny bit different. The text I am using is the alphabet
they used. I do not really know any of it but I copied and pasted a
poem written by Shakespeare on the page below. This is one of
his famous poems from the play Hamlet.

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 To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. - Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.

http://www.artofeurope.com/shakespeare/sha8.htm

As you can see their language was similar to ours but definitely
not the same. My brother is studying it in his school and he had 7
or 8 pages in Old English and in ordinary English it was only a
paragraph long for the same meaning.

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BY: Spencer Trouton