Medieval Notes:

Medieval Time:

• Churches have become the center of learning and primary authority.
• 90 % of the people are employed in the service of lords and serfs and farmers.
• if you were born a peasant you would die a peasant
• boys were sold as slaves and girls were sold as maid servants mostly by their own families
• a long revolution would change these social orders
• their concept of equality was non existent
• the common people were serfs. The social triangle went up to a point at which the kind stood.
• early 11th century, inequality and depression were a part of the caste system.
• a nobles life was 6 times that of a peasants
• the word gentlemen came from the word gene meaning "well born". your class was in your genes.
• serfs had to work on lord's land. working breeding stock. a man was tied to the soil.
• if you tried to run away, you were punished.