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Title: Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes, and Life in the Middle Ages


1
Welcome to the Middle Ages!
  • Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes, and Life in the
    Middle Ages

2
Definitions
  • Types of Tales
  • Fables
  • Folk Tales
  • Nursery Rhymes
  • Fairy Tales
  • How Told?
  • Why Told?
  • By minstrels, for news and entertainment.

3
History of the Middle Ages
  • The Middle Ages is considered to have begun with
    the Norman Conquest in 1066
  • The Middle Ages is considered to have ended about
    the time of the voyage of Christopher Columbus in
    1492

4
Feudal System
  • The King owned all of the land
  • The nobility held land for the king, and paid
    taxes
  • Peasants worked land for nobility paid taxes
  • Church also received money from nobility and
    peasants.

5
Personal Life
  • Short, brutal, hard
  • Health (humors)
  • Average life span
  • Food
  • Money
  • Housing
  • Heat in winter
  • Marriage
  • Travel

6
Knights, Armour, and Weapons
  • Who can be a knight?
  • Fealty
  • Weapons longbow, crossbow, sword, mace, axe
  • Tournaments
  • Armour
  • Animals hawk, falcon, destrier
  • Crusades
  • Chivalry

7
Chivalry
  • Chivalry is an honor code that pledges a knight
    to respect ladies and defend them against harm.
    A knight pledges to always do his best in battle
    he may honorably break this pledge at the request
    of a lady

8
Crime and Punishment
  • Swift and severe
  • Drawn and quartered
  • Boiled in oil
  • Hanging
  • Rock-A-Bye Baby
  • Guillotine/display heads
  • Punishment for stealing
  • Punishment is a picnic
  • Debtors prison

9
The Black Death
  • 1347-1350
  • Trade Routes
  • Caravans and ships
  • Grain

10
The Black Death
  • Rats
  • Fleas
  • Bite Humans
  • Plague Outbreak
  • 30 of the population of Europe dead
  • Ring Around the Rosie

11
The Spread of the Plague
12
The Cinderella Story
  • Yeh Shen, The Chinese Cinderella
  • Grimm Brothers Version
  • Disney Version
  • Native American Version
  • Many other versions

13
Thank You For Watching
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14
The Tudors
  • After the middle ages, we had the Tudor Family
    ruling in England.
  • Here are some links to information about King
    Henry, Bloody Mary, Elizabeth I, and Mary, Queen
    of Scots
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