Global History I: Spiconardi

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• Global History I Spiconardi

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Rollo
Charles The Simple
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• Fall of Rome/Collapse of a centralized government
• Kings too weak to stop invaders, such as Muslims,
  Magyars, Vikings
• People leave cities/towns and band together in
  countryside for protection

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• Feudalism ?a political system in which lords are
  granted the use of land (a fief) from their king
  in exchange for loyalty, military service, and
  protection of the people who lived on the land
• Fief ?land granted by a lord to a vassal

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• Monarch/King
• Needed assistance to repel invaders
• Kept order

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• Lords ?owned and managed large estates of land
• Vassals ?lesser lords who received a fief from
  the lord in exchange for loyalty military
  service

Note High ranking Catholic Clergy (e.g.
bishops) were considered to be at the same social
level as secular lords
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• Knights ? warriors who pledged to defend their
  lords
• Often the younger sons of nobles
• Code of Chivalry ? Code of conduct for medieval
  knights similar to bushido

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• Peasants/townspeople
• Serfs ? legally bound to their lord could not
  leave the land they were born on
• Average life expectancy was 35 years

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• Manorialism ? an economic system consisting of
  manors, which were agricultural estates run by
  lords and worked by peasants
• Serfs were provided housing and protection in
  exchange for labor and a portion of their
  grain/harvest

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•   John of Cayworth holds from his lord one house
  and thirty acres of land.  For his right to this
  land, he must pay the lord two shillings a year
  at Easter and Michaelmas.  At Christmas he must
  give the lord one cock and two hens worth four
  shillings.          He must harrow cultivate
  the lord's land for two days during Lent at
  sowing time with his own horse and harrow.  He
  receives from the lord each day that he harrows
  three meals.          He must carry the manure
  of the lord's animals for two days using his own
  two oxen.  He receives from the lord three meals
  each day that he carries the manure.          He
  must carry wood from the lord's forest to the
  manor house for two days in summer.  He receives
  from the lord three meals each day that he
  carries wood.          John of Cayworth may not
  allow his daughters to marry without the consent
  of the lord or the lord's bailiff. Neither may he
  permit his sons to enter the clergy without the
  lord's consent.  He may not cut the timber
  growing on his land without the consent of his
  lord or the bailiff, and then only for the
  purpose of building.          After his death,
  his survivors will pay to the lord the best
  animal that he had, unless he has no living
  beast, and then the lord will receive no
  payment.          And if his sons or daughters
  wish to continue holding his house and thirty
  acres after his death, they must make a payment
  to the lord equal to the entire rent for one year.

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