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A Day In The Middle Ages Essay

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Rebekah Aldrich
Mrs. Leavy
History and Geography
18 October 2017 A Day in the Middle Ages

Food, homes, and daily life in the Middle Ages greatly varied depending on one’s class (i.e. status). The highest status was royalty, then noble, knights, clergy, peasants, and last was serfs.
The highest status a person could be was royalty. Royalty had the best of everything including, clothes, food, books, and the most money. Nobles were the second highest status, and the noble class spent their day governing their land, serfs, and peasants. Nobles of higher wealth and status owned manors and castles. The nobles relied on the peasants and serfs rent for food since nobles did not work on their own fields. A noble’s son(s) who did not inherit …show more content…

The second option was to marry a daughter of a noble and hope to get money, land, and other necessary items from her inheritance. The third option was to become a knight, and the last option was to go to the church to become clergy of some kind. Knights were the third highest status and changed over the Middle Age period. In the early Middle Ages knights were appointed by nobles for exceptional poetry and writing, plays and music. Later in the Middle Ages knights had to go through training to be appointed as a knight by a noble. To be a knight, at around age 7 one would serve as a page to a noble. A page would run errands, bring messages, and were taught by the women of the manor. At around age 14, pages would become squires. Squire’s would follow their noble almost everywhere he went, whether he was hunting, fishing or observing land. Squire’s would even follow their noble to battle. Squire’s also practiced fighting with a wide variety of weapons. After being a squire for serval years one would take a test, if he passed the test, his noble would grant him knightship. Clergy was the fourth highest status, they were usually nobles or other rich men who did various deeds for the church. Women who

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