1st Essay: Describe the daily life of people in Medieval Europe

In medieval Europe, there were different classes of people, and they all had their unique routine for the day. There were four social classes in the medieval period. Those were the monarch, tenants-in-chief (nobles), sub-tenants (knights), peasants (serf, freeman). The majority of medieval Europe people lived and worked as peasants, farmed to stay alive and be protected. Usually, there was a local lord who took care of the people who worked under him and gave them lands to farm and live. The peasants would work under him to have food and shelter.

The serfs were the peasants that worked under the lord to survive. Freeman, they are classified as free, no one is in charge of them. They have their lands to grow plants and their hut to live.

Next is the sub-tenants, who are also known as knights, their daily life was to eat and train their skills to fight. After breakfast, they would ordinarily go to weapon practice and practice their sword fighting skills. They would also discuss war strategies.

There were higher class people who do more than just those tasks. For example, the tenants-in-chief, their lifestyle was very different from the knights and the peasants. They would wake very early to have a prayer lesson in the chapel then they were going to eat their breakfast and spend their day discussing marriages, people's complaints, crops and other things they were in charge. And they would eat dinner at around noon and have the whole afternoon to themselves. They could hunt, visit the field and see if everything is working correctly or they could do whatever they pleased. They would then have the evening prayer and eat supper. After supper, there would occasionally be jesters and acrobats performing to entertain them. After the day's festivities, the lord and the nobles would say their nighttime prayers and go to sleep.

And, the highest-ranking of all, the monarch. The monarchs are only the queens and kings who rule the place, the kings and queens daily life routines were similar to the nobles. But instead of handling crops and people's complaints, they usually talk about how to expand their kingdom and strategies on how to win a war.

As explained, different people from different social classes had a different daily lifestyle. The higher rank you're on the feudal system, the more power you have and the more things you can do. For example, the difference between a noble and knight is that the knight only has some land to raise the peasants, while the noble can control the military events and choose whether they want to fight for the kingdom or not. Not only that, peasants and monarchs also have a massive difference in their daily routine. The peasants work to get protection and food, but the kings and queens gain protection from the peasants, knights and the lords.

In the medieval time of Europe, the daily lives of people are different due to their ranking in society. The ones who have the most things to do are the monarchs and the nobles. And the peasants have the least exciting life and things to do.

	Created by Horace SHI about 6 years ago

Medieval Period Revision

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