Life and Death in Medieval Times: Norman England

Flashcards about the Normans

The Normans conquered England in the year _.

1066

The Norman invasion of Ireland occurred in .

1169

The Hundred Years War between France and England took place between _ and 1453.

1337

The Black Death occurred between _ and 1359.

1347

The Middle Ages was the period of European history from about 500 to around .

1500

___ is the system of land ownership where rulers divided land among their followers in return for loyalty and taxes

Feudalism

__: the people who worked on a lord's land.

Peasants

__: sworn by a knight to be loyal to his lord, protect the poor and weak and be brave in battle.

Oath of chivalry

__: the system of farming where peasants were each given strips of land to farm in large fields

Open field system

__: leave the land uncultivated for one year so that the soil could recover its nutrients

Fallow

__: used for grazing the animals that belonged to the peasants

Commons

__: the payment of one-tenth of a peasant's annual income to the Church

Tithe

__: a contract whereby a town was granted freedom to run its own affairs but paid taxes to the king

Charter

__: an organisation of skilled people who worked in the same trade

Guild