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Illumination of knights jousting. This late fifteenth-century manuscript painting show knights in plate armour. No knight would have worn plate armour in combat. Illustration from Paris, Bibliothèque nationale française
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Although there were gaols, they were generally used to hold a prisoner awaiting trial rather than as a means of punishment, which ranged from simple fines to being placed in stocks or the pillory – where one could be pelted with rotten eggs, squishy tomatoes, or a well aimed stone! – mutilation (cutting off a part of the body), or death were the most common forms of punishment. - historicromance.w...
Peasants lived in cruck houses. These had a wooden frame, plastered wattle and daub (mud, straw and manure). The straw insulated to the wall. The manure bound the mixture together and gave it strength. What a cruck house may have looked like - minus the wattle and daub Cruck houses were not big but repairs were quite cheap and easy to do. The roofs were thatched. There would be little furniture within the cruck houses and straw would be used for lining the floor. The houses are likely to have been very hot in the summer and very cold in the winter. Windows were just holes in the walls as glass was very expensive. Doors might be covered with a curtain rather than having a door as good wood could be expensive. www.historylearni...
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Image from book - Famous Men of the Middle Ages - Image - The Children's Crusade Children from noble families saw little of their parents. When they were very young nurses looked them after. When they were about 7 they were sent to live with another noble household. Boys became pages and had to wait on lords and ladies. They also learned to fight. At 14 a boy became a squire and at 21 a knight. Girls learned the skills they needed to run a household. Childhood ended early for children in the Middle Ages. In upper class families girls married as young as 12 and boys as young as 14. They did not normally choose their own marriage partners. Their parents arranged their marriages for them. Children from poor families might have more choice about who they married but by the time they were about 7 or 8 they had to start helping their parents by doing simple jobs such as chasing away birds when crops had been sown or helping to weave wool. Children were expected to help the family earn a living as soon as they were able.
For most of the Middle Ages, there were no kitchens in the modern sense. Cooking – even in the larger houses of the nobility – was carried out in a hearth in the main living space, which also served as a kitchen and dining room. This was done for simple heating efficiency.
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High Middle Ages dress circa 1485 The quantity and quality of medieval woman's clothing depended mostly on status. Queens wore elaborate, exquisitely detailed gowns while peasants wore ill-fitting hand-me-downs. Noblewomen and the wives of wealthy merchants could afford more costly garments. Zeitlerweb.com
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