Week 8 (no week 7)

Question 1

Societal structure part (1)

Answer 1

Germanic warbands
Bond between lord and retainers (the comitatus)
- based on reciprocity

Question 2

Societal structure (2)

Answer 2

• warbands expand into kingdoms
• based on reciprocity
• king has a Witan (=counsel of wise men)

Question 3

Witenagemot

Answer 3

meeting of Witan
choose new king
lords temporal and lords spiritual

Question 4

Societal structures (3)

Answer 4

Local government
subdivision of kingdoms into smaller units
(governed by Earls etc)

Question 5

Church and Christianity

Answer 5

• secular clergy and regular clergy is already a thing

- Dioceses (area of land a bishop rules over)