Feudalism and Buildings
The place where most people live in the Middle Ages.
Countryside
The games children would play.
The event that precedes fairs.
Mass.
The peasants would obtain fuel for their fire and material to make tools in this.
The woodlands.
The two materials used to make the house of the lord.
Stone and wood
The center of the social life of the peasants.
The Church.
The night of prayer a man did on his knees prior to being knighted.
The reason for processions.
Great feasts.
Mariages were arranged in this part of a town.
The marketplace.
The location of a village.
Near a river.
The medieval lords ate without these.
Forks.
The ducking stool.
Throwing someone into the water to test their guilt.
Trial by water.
Long plays about saints or stories from the Bible.
Miracle plays.
The object in the middle of the marketplace.
The Cross.
Another word for common man, living in a village.
Villein
The walls of manors were hung with these.
Beautiful tapestries.
The woven twigs were also called.
Wattle
People who are attached to a lord.
Vassals
After Shrove Tuesday dinner, boys went into the field to play this sport.
Ball. (scholars of every school came with balls and bats)
All the master goldsmiths lived on the same street and formed this type of association.
A guild.
The place up the hill where peasants would go to pray when they were troubled or sorrowful.
The village Calvary.
The people who came to play music, tells stories, and share the news from other countries.
Troubadours or minstrels.
Windows
The meaning of feu.
Fee
The game played by boys during the Easter holidays.
Water battles. (With a shield on a pole, trying to break a lance against it to win)
Tax paid at a city gate by traders from the outside the town.
A toll.
The people that entertained the lords of the manors by singing songs from other castles and lands.
Troubadours
The names of the bread plates given to the poor after the meal in the hall was over.
Trenchers.
Food that was grown outside the peasant houses.
Vegetables.
The number of years a boy trained under a master workman to become one of the members of the guild.
Seven.
Who dressed more gaily: the workers in the towns or the serfs on the manors?
Workers in the towns
Papers given to men of the town by lords who wanted money in exchange for freedoms and privileges, and the paper which the men of the town wrote out for themselves to say what was expected of everyone.
Charters.
The name of the practice of leaving one field unplanted each year.
Letting the ground lie fallow.
The peasants daughter could not marry without this.
The lord's consent.
The peasants mostly walked this way.
Barefoot.
The people who did the actual hard work for the lords, vassals, and subvassals.
Serfs.
A typical hat worn by wives and daughters of wealthy merchants.
Pointed lace cap.
Furs, tar, leather, woolens, coppe ware, and ironware came from this part of Europe.
The north of Europe.
Because the peasants did not know how to do this, they had to let each field rest for a year in turn.
Fertilize the land.
Lords usually fought with other lords or even with his king, therefore, his castle was built here.
Someplace hard to reach.
The peasant women served the lord by these two tasks.
Spinning and weaving.
The guilt of a man was determined by this painful trial.
Trial by ordeal.
The work hours for men in the Middle Ages.
From sunrise to sunset.
Spices, drugs, sugar, cotton, dyes, perfumes, and jewels came from this country.
Italy
The field was divided into these.
Strips
The title of nobles who gave some of his land to a lesser noble
Overlord.
Peasant houses in medieval times were made of these two things.
Mud and twigs.