The Manor

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The Manor

• Daily Life in the Middle Ages

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1. The Manor

• Nobles, knights, and peasants all depended on the
  land for everything they needed
•  Land was divided into manors (farming
  communities)

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1. Manor Characteristics (Cont.)

• found on fiefs
• owned by nobles

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Summarize!

• Tell a partner one characteristic of a manor.

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2. Daily Life

• Nobles chose officials to run manor
• -loyal to noble
• -made sure that orders were carried out

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2. Daily Life (continued)

• Seneschal official who looked after fiefs by
  visiting them on a regular basis
• Bailiff official who made sure the peasants
  worked hard in the fields

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2. Daily Life (Continued)

• Each manor had its own court that settled
  differences and gave out fines and punishments

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2. Daily Life (Continued)

• Manors were isolated from one another
• people on a manor had to be self-sufficient
• produced food, clothing, and shelter that they
  needed

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Summarize!

• Tell a partner one example of an official who
  helped to run a manor

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2. Daily Life (Continued)

• Nobles of the manors lived in a wooden house or
  castle

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2. Daily Life (Continued)

• Near the nobles house stood a small village of
  cottages where the peasants lived

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2. Daily Life (Continued)

• villages had a church, mill, bread oven, and wine
  press
• cottages crowded around an open area called a
  village green

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2. Daily Life (cont.)

• Cottages made of wood with thatched roofs

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2. Daily Life (Continued)

• one room
• family members slept on the dirt floor or piles
  of straw
• stools and a table were the only furniture

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3. Freemen and Serfs

• Freemen paid noble for the right to farm land

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3. Freemen (Continued)

• worked their own strips of land
• moved whenever and wherever they wanted

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3. Freemen (cont.)

• Noble could throw them off the manor without
  warning

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3. Serfs (Continued)

• Serfs nobles property

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3. Serfs (Continued)

• could not move into other areas
• could not own property
• could not marry without permission of nobles
• could not be driven off the land

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3. Serfs (cont.)

• Didnt have to serve in the army

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3. Serfs (Continued)

• Not easy for serfs to gain freedom
• Tried to escape through towns
• If he remained in town for a year without being
  caught, he was free

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3. Serfs (Continued)

• Serfs worked long hours in the fields
• performed duties for nobles
• Sunday was a day of rest from work

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3. Serfs (cont.)

• Took part in sports like wrestling, soccer, and
  archery

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Summarize!

• Discuss with a partner
• 1.What was it like for peasants living on manors?
• 2. What was it like for nobles living on manors?