Late Middle Ages
By: Tristan Bjarnason BLK:8
Craft Guilds
- Specilizing in trade
- as bakers, tailors, sword makers and armour makers
- tradespeople oporated in a guild
- guilds controlled prices
- eliminated compitation guilds ran trade activity between towns
Life in Medieval town
Roles of Markets/Fairs: To sell things, help cities grow, people came from all over from town to town to buy and trade, made people start to open up permantent buisness
Sanitation and Cleanliness: Dumped garbage in streets, dumped pots into the streets, pigs roamed free, opened sewers.
Rise of Merchant Class
Activity #2- Technologies of the TIme
New Freedoms in Towns
Castles
Example of a Famous Castle:Dover Castle, Kent England
Caption
Life in Medieval Castle: People would go to castles in help of defense they had water and food for people to that stay for a seige.
Knights
Role of Jousting: Practicing for battling by perfecting their physical ability's and increases their chances of staying alive
Chivalry: Was based on a personal honor. the model knight was brave, generous and truthful knights could've fell short by mistreating a serf or a normal person by assaulting them
The code of Chivalry: Brave so they wouldn't chicken out of fights to protect people
Generous: they would give to the needy
Strong: needed to be strong enough to protect normal people
Truthful: tell the truth to people
Couragues: had to have courage to fight in wars
Fit: Stay fit so it could be fast in all the armor
Weapons
Siege Weapons:(Medieval Catapult) Used in Medieval times during seiges they were used for hurling stones or other objects anything that launches anything was considered as a catapult it changed the game by being able to kill people from deep range
Armor
Activity #3: Culture
Food and Drink
Art
saw many changes up to the emergence of the Renaissance period art was initially restricted the product the production of Piestic painting not portrait painting in the art of the middle ages there was Byzantine Art, Roman esque Art what influences them to make art they probably liked to do it and must of got a lot of money back then.