Life In The Middle Ages

During the middle ages every building was built with the main idea of protection all they wanted was strong protected buildings. Architecture back than wasn’t very welcoming in fact it looked like the complete opposite, castles looked dangerous and powerful. Around this owned estate there usually were walls protecting all the people inside. Like other great cultures before themselves they started to build large structures out of wood, but the problem was that wood caches on fire easily and doesn’t prude nearly as much protection as stone. If you were a peasant, you would have lived in a one room hut walls made out of longs stuck together by mud with a thatch roof this was bad because of the weather these hut weren’t very strong and a big enough storm could tear it apart. If you were a freeman you might have two or three rooms made out of wood and thatch roof. A noble house would have 6 to 12 rooms and would be made of stone still not a castle or manor but better than a hut. A lord’s manor wasn’t just the house that him and his family lived, it was all the land, peasant homes, stables, storage buildings and local areas that was promised to him by his king. Buildings were made to last in the middle ages and that’s why they are still around today.

The middle ages had many different types of foods. only some people had access to the delicacies it was good for the rich, but the poor had the worst of things. The less fortunate such as peasants and freemen ate a less impressive diet such as bread, fish, egg, vegetables, fruits and very rarely some kind of meat. The only time a peasant would ever get any expensive or more valuable food would be when they were servants at a more wealthy and bigger aristocracy. Most people ate meats that had been pickled or salted so they would last a lot longer. The poor usually had pigs because unlike cows and sheep they were able to be kept together in a small area. Peasants usually kept cows for their dairy, so their diet consisted mainly of cheese, milk, curds and whey. A noble’s diet was very different to those lower down on the social status. Aristocratic estates provided wealthy people with fresh meat and fish, also fresh fruit and vegetables. Cooked meals were flavoured with different spices. Other common ingredients that were used were cane sugar, almonds, and dried fruits such as dates, figs or raisins. Wealthy people treasured these goods because they imported from overseas and were really expensive. Spicy sauces were really popular; some people devoted their life into making these sauces and even had professional careers doing it.

In the middle ages there was low regard for health and children would be able to go do potentially life-threatening things. In the medieval times thing wouldn’t be much for kids no matter how rich your family was. During the middle ages it was normal for children to not live past infancy there was also a high percentage of women not surviving childbirth due to lack of knowledge of germs and diseases and lack of sterilisation. If they were children were lucky enough to live past infancy they would play in the town and maybe sometimes in the local forests, they also had to do work around the house but only some would have a proper education. At the age of 7 boys would be sent off to learn and train to be knights if you were a daughter of a wealthy or important family you would start school at 14 and learn how to take care of the house and crops but mostly learn how to become a women. Children follow religious practise and were baptised. Once children reached adolescence age they were often shipped off as apprentices in other people’s homes, or they began working in the family business. Children were commonly taught religion, courtly rituals and how to be nights. Children were constantly under threat from multiple things and some of them dyed before they even took one breath.