Culture and society in the middle ages

cultural and society main topics

solstice

society

Culture

feudal system

Beliefs

Festivals and celebrations

feudal sysyem

Martin E, Alejando L, Nicolas v, Cristian e.

Culture and society

in the middle ages

Cultural works

Beliefs in the society

1 Christianity and the church God and salvation: The most important belief was in God, and life focused on seeking salvation and access to heaven after death

2 Superstitions and supernatural beliefs. Witches and demons: Many people believed in witches, demons and evil forces that could influence daily life. Amulets and prayers were used for protection.

3 Social structure and divine right Divine right of kings: Kings and nobles were considered rulers appointed by God. This belief justified the feudal social hierarchy and the absolute power of the monarchs.

4 conception of the world Geocentrism: It was believed that the Earth was the center of the universe and that everything revolved around it, a belief that came from Greek astronomy and was adopted by the Church

5 The Crusades and holy war:The Crusades were based on the belief that it was a sacred duty to liberate Jerusalem and other holy places from Muslim hands. Those who participated in the Crusades believed they would gain forgiveness for their sins and a better life in the afterlife.

6 Limited education and knowledge Knowledge and science were closely linked to faith. Much of knowledge was controlled by the Church, and any idea that challenged Christian doctrine could be considered heresy.

The solstice in the middle ages was some of the most important celebrations, because they thought that jumping above fire while is happening the solstice will clean their spirits, if you don`t know when happen the solstices it happens when in an epoch of the year the days are more long than the nights, and this because the earth do like a little vertical movement in all the year that do this interesting phenomenum.

how it was the solstice during the middle ages?

During the medieval era, the culture and the works were so influensed by the feudal system and the social structure of that times. This works were not only essential for the cultural life in the epoch,also it helped to preservate and transmit the knowledge and the tradition.Some of this works were:

Cultural works

• Writers and poets: they wrote about things that happended or culture of that times, preservating the culture
• Artists: they drew events that happend or they celebrated, like the picture, and it preservated and transmit the culture

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In the middle ages there were a lot of celebrations thet today doesn´t exist, more like celbrations they were like festivals of food and beer for some things that happen and they tought that were divine, like the solostice thta it was a celeebration that can repair their soluls

celebrations and festivals during middle ages

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In the middle ages there were a lot of celebrations thet today doesn´t exist, more like celbrations they were like festivals of food and beer for some things that happen and they tought that were divine, like the solostice that it was a celebration that can repair their souls and also that the society used often a system called the fuedal system wich was a system based in different levels and the higher level you was the more power and advantages you had.

conclusion

The culture in that time was all based in christianism and they do all the things possible for god, if you do a thing that in the bible or the church says you that is bad or wrong, you are going to be executed or get in jail, also some cultural works from the middle ages were the sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, metal work, and moisacs, and there was at least one festival every month, conducted by the church to celebrate a holy day at the festivals, there were sporting events, plays, food, wandering ministrels and singers.

how was the culture in the middle ages?

the feudal system was a way to manage the levels in the society during the middle ages, it had 4 levels, at the bottom we have the slaves, who where the people who was poor and did all the hardest jobs in exchange for nothing they were basically prisioners, in the next level we have the vassals, they were like the peasants or citizen, they worked at the farm and harvested the lands and they worked in exchange of money. In the next level we have the nobles, knights etc. the nobles where like the people below the kings they lived in the castle and they were basically like the rich people and the knights had to protect the vassals and the lands. And in the final level we have the royalty who where the king and the queen, they were the most powerful people in the kingdom they controled the towns and the people.

The Feudal System

The society during the middle ages was in a way similar to now, it are a little now similar classes like now the president is a kind of king, the politics are like the nobles or dukes, and all of we are like the middle part like the people that have a job and can gain money to buy a house water or food, and the church still being the church but now they can´t do like decisions for the country like then that were the crusades.

how was the society in the middle ages?