HIST 102 Bennett Judith 2012 Fall Week 7 Lecture 14 October 11 Announcements Alternative discussion paper topic for Friday What peasants think about genders Friday reading argument btw peasant wife and husband Next paper due Nov 8th Outline of Last Lecture I Those who worked a Manoralism i Elite views of peasants ii What is Manoralism iii How did it evolve iv How did it work v How did it relate to Feudalism vi How did it relate to those who pray b people i Motors of the medieval economy ii Peasants lives iii Walsham le willows Outline of Today s Lecture II Medieval thinking on gender women and sex a What science taught b What Christianity taught c What courtly ideals taught d Attacks on Women misogyny and misogamy e Defenses of women f Gender rules on the ground g Sex and sexualities Today s Lecture These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute A manorial courtroll picture Money made record death met every three weeks community order Peasants Elite views of peasants review o Cursed Descendants of Ham o Blessed Poor thus loved by god Manorialism o A way for the manor to make money from the peasants Land Farmlands rich places in France England and Germany People how attached to land Slave oblate in 1100s Bought and sold property Free peasants Play by rules Serfs more lands at better rate compared to free peasants Btw slave and free cannot be bought and sold but tied to the land cannot leave pay rent in labor goods and cash pay fines when do certain things i e sending children to school or marrying daughter Monks can also own manors How does it evolve o Out of chaos of 7 8th C County Village Manors Parish religious care Grids may overlap How does it work o Manor making money Having domain Labor working and providing resources Collecting rents Fines from the serfs Permission of important life decision Leyrwite the fine for laying down Manorial court fees Facility using fee Using mile or oven Tenants don t own but hold it pay rent and labor in cash and others Mixed Economy for peasants Arable farming Pastoral farming Ancillary activities Wood land gathering nuts and woods Fishing in the river Gardening Not sufficient Part of market economy selling and buying How does it relate to Feudalism o Fiefs are always manors if not paid by annuity only o Most manors are fiefs but there are Allodial manors o Dependency btw manor and serf parallel to the dependency btw lord and vassals But are not equal Those who pray o Church also have manors o Parishes At the heart of the village Only built by stone Markets around the graveyard Peasant as the Motors of the Medieval Economy o Agricultural revolution c 700 1200 The setting Weather is better Little optimum drier and longer growing season 1100 pacified Europe crusades o c 1095 take all the knights and sent to holy land o peace of god knights should not kill peasants o no invader mayard settled vikings Muslims settled Technological changes New plow New method of harnessing Better Horse collar Horse shoes Tandem Mills water and wind replaced human labor Changes in land use Local reclamation Peasant reclaim waste land bring local land into power will be rented Colonization English Ireland Dutch sea German Slavic Spanish and Italian Al Andulus Manors encouraging this Better use via 3 field rotation Replaced 2 field thus 2 3 lands always being farmed o Thus Much more yield from field too 1 2 1 4 population growth Specialized France Trade Town grew More Wealth to tax Lives o Manor o Village Not egalitarian Community of peasants themselves Field divided to strips in order for the whole land to plant the some product cooperation for he use of open field o Parish o House and household No chimney at this time Peasants don t spend most of the times inside Father is the master Walsham le Willows This week s reading o An village o Two manors and a jurisdiction o 600 people most under 20 o figure of what s going on o Original Latin o