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- Powerpoint presentation
- Eileen Power’s Medieval People is one of the best known modern works on the Middle Ages. The most famous chapter contains the imaginatively reconstructed life of Bodo, a peasant of the Carolingian era.
- Else Roesdahl’s The Vikings is a sympathetic portrait of the civilization stressing its non-raiding, non-murdering features.
- Brian Fagan’s The Great Warming discusses the worldwide impact of the rise in global temperatures during the High Middle Ages.
- Joseph and Frances Gies’s Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel is an accessible treatment of the science and technology of the Middle Ages. Also see the Gieses’ Life in a Medieval Village.
- Piers Plowman
Medieval Society and Economy: Peasants – Quiz
- English peasant life of the 14th century was vividly depicted in what literary work?
- Identify at least three common features of a manor.
- Identify at least two of the Church’s major feast days discussed in the lecture.
- Identify one of the agricultural improvements developed during the Middle Ages.
- Identify the three groups that invaded Europe in the tenth century.
- List the Three Estates of medieval social theory.
- True/False: The High Middle Ages was a period of “global warming.”
- True/False: The population of Europe fell nearly in half between 1000 and 1300.
- Piers Plowman
- Manor house, village, parish church, fields, forest, waste, commons
- Easter, Christmas, Pentecost
- Horse collar, windmill, crop rotation
- Vikings, Arabs, Magyars
- Clergy, aristocracy/nobility, peasants
- True
- False