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Title: Towns, Thomas


1
Medieval Time Period
  • Towns, Thomas á Becket, Hundred Years War, War of
    the Roses

2
Towns
  • Originally most people lived in the country
  • The common man worked the fields
  • for the lord of the manor.

3
Sheep Herding
  • People began sheep herding
  • They produced the finest wool
  • in Europe
  • Wool industry thrived

4
  • Cottages became small mills
  • Common people paid the lord
  • in cash

5
Middle Class
  • A whole new class of people emerged
  • Merchants grew rich.
  • They entered the gentry.
  • They developed their own literature, songs drama
    and ballads.
  • Mystery and miracle plays, which were
    dramatizations of Biblical stories, were acted
    out in courtyards and inn yards.

6
Life in Medieval Times
  • Life was austere.
  • Travel was difficult and dangerous.
  • Little food variety no refrigeration/bleak
    winter diets
  • Dress was bright and varied for the nobility

7
Entertainment
  • Religious festivals
  • tournaments

8
Thomas á Becket
  • Becket and King Henry were friends
  • King Henry appointed Becket Archbishop of
    Canterbury
  • King Henry hoped to win
  • the disputes against the
  • church.

9
  • Becket usually sided with the Pope
  • This infuriated King Henry
  • Wont someone rid me of this meddlesome priest?

10
The Murder of Becket
  • Henrys knights murdered Becket on the steps to
    the altar.
  • People are outraged
  • Henry loses power in the
  • church
  • This led to corruption in
  • the church.

11
  • Monks lived a life of luxury
  • No regard for the poor
  • Friars were chasing
  • women and accumulating
  • and using money
  • Some friars were
  • threatening people
  • with eternal damnation.

12
Hundred Years War
  • First national war against France
  • Yeoman were green-clad archers who shot 3 foot
    arrows with the longbow.
  • These arrows could pierce the armor of the
    knights.
  • Knights in shining armor no longer represented
    England.
  • Longbows and gun powder ended the Medieval Time
    Period.

13
Black Death
  • Bubonic plague was one of the many plagues that
    swept through Europe.
  • It killed more than 1/3 of the population
  • Created a labor shortage
  • This lack of labor ended feudalism

14
War of the Roses
  • Civil war in England between the House of York
    and House of Lancaster
  • Each house wanted to rule England
  • It ended when Henry VII united the families by
    marrying Elizabeth.
  • Henry VII founded the Tudor Line of kings.
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