Feudal Life Work Sheet
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Feudal Life
1. What is a fief?
2. What were the people at the bottom of the feudal Pyramid called?
3. What was the Lord supposed to do for the people living on his land?
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4. What did the peasants have to do with most of their crop?
5. What household tasks were women allowed to do?
6. What other things did some women do when threatened by attackers?
7. What jobs were done by women?
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Sheet 2
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Religion
8. What is a “diocese’?
9. Who controlled the “diocese’?
10. What did that call a very big Church?
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11. What vow did a monk have to make and what did this mean?
12. How many times did a monk have to go to the church per day?
13. What did the monk do in the church during the day?
14. What was a pilgrimage?
Bonus Question click on Collapsed Cathedral
15. Which Cathedral Collapsed and when did they finish building this
Cathedral.
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Sheet 3
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Homes
16. Describe the house used by a villein family?
17. How many rooms in a family house ?
18. Describe a rich persons house?
19. What was the ‘hearth” and what two functions did it play in the peasant
family’s house?
20. How did this differ from the way rich people cooked there food?
Bonus Question
21. Using the information on (Middle age Homes
http://www.regia.org/houses.htm), what was the size of the small
home?
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Clothing
22. What type of clothing did most people wear?
23. What type of clothing was a sign of great wealth?
24. What was a monks clothing called?
25. What did the Poor Clare Sisters have to do to be allowed to wear
socks?
Bonus Questions Click on Medieval Hats
26. Which people wore the following hats
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Linen Head
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Straw or felt
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Visored
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Wimple
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Butterfly
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27. What was the most popular jewellery?
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