LESSON 3.4 How was life for people in the feudal system?
LEARNING INTENTION By the end of this lesson you should be able to: • distinguish between the roles of medieval men and women in different social classes • explain how the life of a child in medieval society differs from your own.
Tune in As can be seen in this SOURCE1 image from fifteenth-century France, peasants worked the fields and paid most of their produce to their lords as tithes (a type of tax).
SOURCE1 An image depicting peasants working in the fields in the fifteenth century
Closely examine the image. 1. See: What can you see the people in the illumination doing? 2. Think: What does it make you think in terms of what you have already learnt about the feudal system? 3. Wonder: Share the questions that it raises for you about life on the manor in medieval times. Keep a list of these to see if they are answered as you work through this lesson.
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