Communities
The daughter of a king and queen
What is the princess?
The two days where medieval peasants get to have fun
What are Sundays and Festival Days?
What are Ritters?
This is the ditch filled with water that surrounds a castle for added protection
What is a moat?
The year the plague swept into Europe from Asia
What is 1347?
The person who trains hunting birds for sport
What is the falconer?
An entertainer may walk on these to make themselves comically tall
What are stilts?
When a boy is 7, this is their first role in the process of becoming a knight. He will serve meals and learn battle skills.
What is a Page?
These are the men who would stand guard with bows and arrows at the tops of the castle walls.
What are sentries? (Or what is a sentry?)
The other name for the Plague
What is the Black Death?
The rockstar of the medieval times, this person is a singer and songwriter
What is the minstrel?
During this type of tournament, knights attempt to knock each other off of their horses.
What is jousting?
This is the average age when a boy goes from Page to Squire.
What is 14?
This is the walled passage that leads to the castle gate
What is the barbican?
We now know that this is what caused the plague
What are the bites of fleas living on rats?
The title of person who owns the land that people live and farm on
What is the lord (Or landlord)?
During this medieval children's game, children pass a shoe around while another child has their eyes closed. The child who is it has to guess who is hiding the shoe.
What is Hunt the Slipper?
This is the ceremony when a squire becomes a knight
What is the dubbing ceremony?
This is the thing that is lowered with a pulley system to allow visitors to cross the moat and enter the castle
What is the drawbridge?
Historians believe this is the approximate ratio of people who died from the plague
What is 1 in 3 people?
The person who shaves beards, pulls teeth, sets broken bones and bleeds patients
What is the barber?
Medieval people may watch these dramatic art performances by actors
What are plays?
This is the code which all knights must follow.
What is the code of chivalry?
The sliding door made of iron bars that protects the castle gate
What is the portcullis?
When they ran out of coffins, this is where they buried the victims of the plague... and this upset a lot of families.
What are huge pits in the ground?