Life In A Medieval Village Summary
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Life In A Medieval Village is about archaeological discoveries from
the Middle Ages. The author, Frances Gies, uses details and descriptions to
help her auidence visualize how people worked and lived seven hundred
years ago. The village is a very small town, or as we would say, a
metropolitan subu ....
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.... wasn't a very
delightful place to be in. It was a place of bustle, clutter, smells,
disrepair, and dust, or in much of the year mud. It was far from silent!
Every village had a lord, but only rarely was he in residence. A
resident lord was usually a petty knight. The old feudal theory of lordship
as a link in the legal chain of authority running from serf to monarch had
lost much of it's substance. However, as far as the village was concerned
such legal complications hardly mattered, anymore ....
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