Tuesday, May 1, 2007

 

From the textbook:

 

• What is the origin of the practice of calling the medieval period the Dark Ages?
• What are the various meanings of the term “feudalism”?  What do our authors conclude is at the basis of the term’s meaning?
• What are the elements of the compact described on p. 216?
• What are the three orders and what is the relaitonship between the concept and the reality?
• What is a village?
• What is a manor?
• Why did slavery diminish?  What is the difference between serfdom and slavery?
• What advances allowed for better food production? 
• Look at the revival from the 10^th to the 11^th centuries.  What accounted for it?  What are its components?
• What is the origin of towns? 

 

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Homework Questions (from the Duby reading):

 

1. What is the relationship between family and mansus? 
2. What impression does Duby give us of powerful men?  What were their relationships to those who worked for them?
3. What is a demesne?
4. On p. 42, Duby writes, “The picture of the Carolingian villa as a closed community intended to operate entirely on its own resources is one which needs considerable modification.”  What are the modifications he suggests? 

 

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Laurel Carrington carringt@stolaf.edu
Most recent update: April 27, 2007