MEDIEVAL ENGLANDAn Album

Designed for UG I Year

Crusader knight and the code of

chivalry

Stone cottages at Arlington Row – 1380 – originally built as a wool store in charge of the monastery – Converted into cottages for weavers in 17th century

Medieval village – heavily built with stone, Roman influences

A recreation of a medieval village – Cosmeston village which grew up around a fortified manor house built by a Norman knight family

A Reeve at work in a manor house

Gathering acorns for pigs, a medieval painting

Ruins of a 14th c. manor

Manor House at Penshurst Palace

•Pivot of the feudal system •Feudal system and the 3 orders of society - oratores, bellatores, laboratores •Manor Lordship

Medieval Tithe barn

Peasant rebellion 1381 – Wat Tyler

14th c. pilgrims

Pilgrims of The Canterbury Tales

Wife of Bath

14th c. High

fashion

Geoffrey Chaucer (1345/46-1400)

The first English vernacular poet

Market economy•Manorial records – lords abandon their holdings •Forced to surrender to tenants on absurd terms •Workers paid very low rents, fewer obligations to their lord •No more labour services, purely monetary arrangements between employers and employees •Dissolution of feudalism by the 16th century. •Innovation of labour saving technologies, leading to higher productivity •Creation of monetised labour markets

The Renaissance effect on Chaucer

Italy in the 1300s !Dante Allighieri (1265-1321) Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375): “How many valiant men, how many fair ladies, breakfast with their kinfolk and the same night supped with their ancestors in the next world”

Chaucer and the rise of the English Vernacular

De Vulgari Eloquentia