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Entertainment, clothing and food
Hygiene and medicine
The Plague
Women
100
Quail, geese, swan, pigs, deer, wild boar, sheep, cows, pheasants, fish, soft cheese, eggs, fruit, vegetables, coloured jellies, wine or ale or mead, sauces and soups, salads, white bread, pies and tarts, ornate sweet dishes.
What foods did the nobility eat?
100
They were used for toilet paper
What were moss and leaves?
100
The nickname was given to the Bubonic Plague?
What was ‘The black death’?
100
To give her husband a son.
What was the main purpose in every women’s life?
200
They were drab and dull in colour, they were crudely cut and made from horse cloth, woven by peasant women.
What were the clothes of the poor?
200
This was avoided as it could allow the devil to get into you and make you ill.
What is bathing?
200
Fleas on rats
How did the plague spread?
200
Manners and etiquette, skills such as curtsying and socialising, learning how to dance and ride, and sometimes archery.
What was education for noble girls?
300
Dancing, dice throwing, ball games and wrestling. For children, it was hopscotch and hide and seek.
How did the peasants entertain themselves?
300
These were used for blood-letting, to remove dirty blood and to prevent disease
What are leeches?
300
Black lumps, known as buboes, in the skin-groin armpit and neck; fever and headaches.
What are the symptoms of the Black Death?
300
Usually from the age of 12
At what age were girls married?
400
Only people of royal blood were allowed to wear this colour
What is purple?
400
Non-sterilised saws, knives, hot iron, sharp instruments.
What tools were used in surgery?
400
These 3 continents were affected by the Black Death?
What are Asia Africa and Europe?
400
When the males in the family (husband or father) were off fighting.
When would noble women be able to run the whole estate?
500
Jesters, Mummers (amateur actors), Minstrels, Troubadours, Acrobats, Jugglers and Conjurers.
What sorts of people made a living as entertainers in the Middle Ages?
500
Herbal treatments, blood-letting and forcing people to vomit.
What were common medical treatments in the Middle Ages?
500
1346-1353
In what years did the Black Death occur?
500
This was the work done by peasant women.
What was raise the children, milk and tend the animals, work on the fields and to spin cloth to make clothes?