Chapter 24
Terms
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- Nobles gained right to
- collect taxes, enforce law, coined their own money, raised army
- Symbols of lord's words
- glove, stick, or stone
- People of manor produced
- clothing, food, and shelter, for both themselves and the lord
- Christmas
- lord had great feast and entertainment, singing and dancing in village green
- vassal
- noble who served a lord of higher rank and gave him loyalty
- act of homage
- ceremony that made the tie between lord and vassal official
- Frankish leader during feudalism
- Charles Martel
- knight
- warrior on horseback
- bailiff
- made sure peasants worked hard in the fields
- castles
- stone houses with each corner having a lookout
- fief
- estate
- Serf Sports
- wrestling, soccer,and archery
- scabbard
- sword holder on side, show that would fight by side of lord
- code of chivalry
- rules: to obey his lord, show bravery, respect women of noble birth, honor the Church, and help people
- Knight promised to
- defend the Church and his lord, to protect weak
- Spreading infection
- animals lived in house
- keep
- tall tower with thick walls
- Feudal Territories
- size of Greek City-states, no central city, noble who owned land had political power
- Noble lived in
- wooden house or castle
- Page
- person who helped the knights for their war-horses, from 7-14
- seneschal
- looked after the noble's fiefs by visiting each fief regularly
- by 14, a page could
- handle a lance and sword while on horseback
- Woman of the time:
- married by age 12, males had complete authority, if not married by 21 considered single for life, defend castle, take care of household, train young children
- Cottages crowded around open area called
- village green
- squire
- 15, under the care and training of one knight, go into battle and rescue knight
- Throw scraps on
- straw floor, causing it to be swept every few months
- Vassal promised to
- serve lord and helped him in battle, lord gave vassal a fief
- Sent sons to castle of a lord
- to learn manners, polish armor
- joust
- two armored knights on horseback carrying dull lances galloped towards each other from opposite ends of the field
- Land ownership tied to
- military service
- People in castle could hold out for
- 6 months
- feudalism
- landowning nobles governed and protected the people in exchange for services
- Manor Court
- settled differences, gave out fines and punishment, and discussed manor business
- portcullis
- iron gate that served as entrance to castle
- clergy
- religious leaders owned land and held power
- Kings after Charlemagne
- weak, ignored responsibilites, nobles grew more powerful
- Work schedule
- 3 days worked on nobles farm strips 3 days worked on own farm strip. Sunday day of rest
- dubbing
- special ceremony of becoming a knight, tapped shoulder with sword
- Serfs-
- noble's property, could not move to another area, own property or marry without noble's permission
- tournaments
- special contests that tested strength, skill, and endurance
- freeman
- peasants who paid the noble for the right to farm, worked only on strip of land and had rights under law. Noble could kick off manor without warning.
- peasants lived in
- small villages of cottages
- manor
- farming communities found on fiefs and owned by nobles
- palisades
- high wooden fences
- Horse Collar
- allowing horses instead of slow-moving oxen to plow field, also invented three-field farming and heavy iron plow
- When vassal died
- fief went to oldest son
- Lord captured in battle
- vassals became prisoners or payed a ransom
- Serfs paid for
- r use of mill, bread oven, and wine press. gave part of crops to noble
- Nobles had ___ over woman
- complete authority
- A page learned
- good manners and ran errands for the ladies