The Knights Role In Medieval Times

The Knights role in Medieval Times centered around enhancing their knightly skills in the use of weapons, horsemanship and medieval warfare. The Medieval Knights Armor was extremely expensive to produce. It had to be tailor-made to fit the Knight exactly or the Knight ran the risk of an ill-fitting suit of armor hampering him in battle. A Medieval Knight's Armor was a complex series of garments, chain mail, and iron plate. The warhorse, often a destroyer, was favored by the Knight on a horse. The Warhorses also wore armor. A knight was expected to have not only the strength and skills to face combat in the violent era of the Medieval Times.

A knight was expected to have not only the strength and skills to face combat in the violent era of the Medieval Times but was also
Medieval women invariably had a hard time in an era when many men lived harsh lives. A few women lived comfortable lives but Medieval society was completely dominated by men and women had to know ‘their place’ in such a society. Medieval society would have been very traditional. Women had little or no role to play within the country at large. Within towns, society would have effectively dictated what jobs a woman could do and her role in a medieval village would have been to support her husband. As well as doing her daily work, whether, in a town or village, a woman would have had many responsibilities with regards to her family. Within a village, women would have done many of the tasks men did on the land. However, they were paid less for doing the same job. Documents from Medieval Europe relating to what the common person did are rare, but some do exist which examine what villages did. For reaping, a man could get eight pence a day. For the same task, women would get five pence. For hay making, men would earn seven pence a day while women got 4 pence. In a male dominated society, no woman would openly complain about this