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Life In A Medieval Village Summary
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 suburb. T ....
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.... was comfortable.
Whatever the technicalities, the lord was the main consumer of the village,
meaning he was in control of the profits. The 13th century manor, of which
the village was a part, was not a political or military enterprise but an
economic one, with the lord its exploiter and beneficiary. Still, on a
daily basis the medieval villagers actually existed in a state of near
autonomy controlled by the agricultural cycle of plowing, planting, growing
and harvesting.
How the villagers interacted with one another was quite interesting.
Suposedly the peasant's relationsh ....
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