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Title: Stabilizing Medieval Europe, 700-1000


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Stabilizing Medieval Europe, 700-1000
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Stabilizing Medieval Europe
  • New Economic order
  • Feudalism
  • Manorialism
  • The Role of the Catholic Church
  • Regulating Marriage
  • Regulating Sexuality
  • Blessing Secular Rulers

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Medieval Manor
  • Evolved from Latifundium and Need for Protection

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Castle Fortification
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Manor House Fortification Wealth
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Peasant House
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Peasant House
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Feudalism and Medieval Households
  • The Three Categories of Society
  • Those Who Work Peasants or Serfs
  • Those Who Fight Knights
  • Those Who Pray Clergy Religious
  • Feudalism An Economic System
  • a set of social relations based upon protection
    through service

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Characteristics of Feudalism
  • Ancient slavery ends as a labor system
  • An economic system which does not require cash
    exchange or extensive markets
  • People bound together in terms of obligations and
    terms of service
  • loyalty, homage and fealty govern relationships
    between lord and vassal, peasant and lord

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Patterns...
  • 25-50 peasant families support one knight
  • 90 of the population are peasants
  • Peasants owe 3 days/wk of service fees to lord.
    Fees are required to marry, to inherit
  • Knights owe 40 days/year service to lord to fight
    and must supply armaments, horses, etc.

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Patterns, cont.
  • Farm output is about 10 of todays midwestern
    farm.
  • Peasants (serfs, not slaves) are bound to land
    but have rights to the land
  • Manors are economic and military units, with
    fortifications for defense (a castle), may also
    be controlled by monastic order or church.

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Catholic Church
  • Regulates Sexuality through confession see
    handout on the penitentials.
  • Organizes marriage by enforcing rules of monogamy
    and exogamy

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