Socials Grade 8 Final Exam Notes

Lord And Lady Of The Manor * Lived in the best house of the manor and had servants to care for them * Several rooms * Walls draped with tapestries to keep out the cold * Every room had furniture * No electricity or plumbing * Enjoyed having expensive things that depicted their status * Lords also had obligations to look after. * Had to keep contract with vassal * Had to marry and have children * No children meant the vassal could take back land * Marriages were arranged * Land and wealth were primarily reasons for marriage
Women:
* Before marriage a father controlled the life of a daughter and after marriage her husband controlled her * If a man had no male heirs then the daughter might receive the land * If they didn't marry the vassal would take away the land * Widows had their rights property and freedom * Kings tried to get widows to remarry but they didn't have to

Belief And Devotion In Medieval Society * During the Middle Ages faith in God was an accepted faith of life * One of the main focuses of the church was to convert non-Christians * The roles of a priest consisted of celebrating the mass in the manor church, helped care for sick and the poor, preformed blessings * High church officials could also be vassals to a king or other lord * As holy men they were not expected to fight in a battle * The church taught that if you had a bad life then you would be doomed eternal suffering * Christians who disobeyed the church faced the threat of losing sacraments and lost property * A long who defied the church could also have things taken away and the pop would release the subjects from any feudal obligations * In the ninth century Christian monks copied Classical Greek and Latin texts so that they would be made more widely available * The church did face problems * Such as within their own clergy *