People In History Essays

Question 1

Write the guidelines for the people in history essay on a serf in the Middle Ages

Answer 1

1. Introduction
Serfs and freemen
Feudal system
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2. Farming - commons, arable
    Crop rotation

3. The Manor
Manor House
Church
Tithe
Duties of the priest
Houses

4. Clothing- handmade, wool, linen
   Food- pottage, little meat

5. Work on special days
Pastimes
Bathing in rivers
Singing
Wrestling
Games.. Etc.

6. Law and order
   Bailiff appointed
   Punishments

Question 2

Give the layout for the craftsman in the Middle Ages essay (1-5)

Answer 2

1. Jobs:, Yours, Other craftspeople, your shop
2. Becoming a master craftsman
   Apprentice (uncle) , journeyman, master

3.Guilds
The jobs of a guild
Who is in them?
Women and guilds

4.the town- church, high street.
You house and shop

5. Fairs
   Entertainment
   Singing and dancing
   Wrestling

Question 3

Give the guidelines for the Leonardo Da Vinci

Answer 3

1. Early life- place of birth
   Apprenticed
   Early career
   Patrons (de Medicis)
2. Paintings in detail (2/3)
   Characteristics of paintings
3. Inventions
   Notebooks
   Weapons ( Duke of Milan,sforza)

4. Science
    Nature
    The anatomy and people
    The Vitruvian man
    Cadavers

5. Later years
   King Francois I
   Death at 67
   True Renaissance man

Question 4

Give the layout of the Pieter Bruegal essay

Answer 4

1. Place of Birth
   Early life (peasant family)
   Apprenticeship (Pieter Coecke)
2. Early career, Italy- excepted into a painters guild in Antwerp

3.Type of painting (landscape,people,characteristics)
Peoples faces
How he was a renaissance painter

4. Paintings in detail (2/3)
   Characteristic

5. Later years
    Family-sons
    Death 44
    Marriage
    True Renaissance

Question 5

Write the layout of the people in history essay for a knight

Answer 5

Battle
Armour- visor
Feudal system

2.Becoming a knight
Page, squire, knight
Dubbing- prayer in church

3. Chivalry
   Code of chivalry
4. Food-meat
   Clothing- stuffed pointy shoes, wimple, long trailing dress

5. Entertainment:
Tournaments
Jousting
Meleés
Hawking
Minstrels

6. Finishing paragraph
   What it is like to be a knight.

Question 6

Tell the layout of the people in history essay of a monk in medieval times

Answer 6

1.What you had to do to be a monk- Tonsure, Vows
Orders of monks(Benedictines)
Why monastries are important
Why you became a monk

2. Buildings in the monastery
   Gothic and Romanesque architecture
3. Jobs in the monastery
   Yours in detail ( eg. Almoner cares for the poor, infirmian cares for the sick )

4.Daily life
Rule of St. Benedict
Prayers every day - matins, vespers and complines

5. Meals
   New orders of monks-Friars