Medieval Period

Question 1

Kenmerken
Reading and writing

Answer 1

• most people could neither read nor write
  > except for monks, nuns and scribes

Question 2

Society was made up of the three orders

Answer 2

• the clergy > powerful political class, well educated
• the nobility > influential class with military power
• the people > tax paying, farmers and serfs

-> each order has its own responsibilities, privileges and special honours

Question 3

Kenmerken
Stories

Answer 3

• most stories were still told instead of read towards the end of the middle ages
• storytellers travelled from town to town brining tales, the latest news from the royal courts and musical entertainment

Question 4

1440

Answer 4

Invention printing press

Question 5

Chaucer

Answer 5

• set the new standard
  -> no more writing in dialect, but English as a literary language and English society as a topic