🌎 Middle Ages: Manors

Learning Objective

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I will create a pictorial model of a medieval manor.

Assignment Instructions

What is a manor?

During the Middle Ages, the manor was an agricultural estate where most of the population lived and worked.  A manor was usually made up of a large manor house where the lord of the estate lived, land used for farming, and a village of people who worked the land. Manors might also have had woods, orchards, gardens, and lakes or ponds where fish could be found. On the manor lands, usually near the village, were often buildings such as a mill, bakery, and blacksmith. Manors were largely self-sufficient and provided all the food and products needed by the villagers.  The people who lived and worked in the manor, except the lord and lady of the manor, would rarely travel away from the manor.  In the beginning of the Middle Ages, the manor house was usually just a strongly fortified building where the villagers could shelter when trouble arose, but over time, many became large, stately houses and sometimes even castles.  Manors were sometimes given to knights as payment for their service to the king.  

You are going to create a drawing of a typical medieval manor estate.

Get a large blank piece of white paper.

Include the following in your picture:

• manor house/castle
• village
• river/stream
• Forest area
• fields divided into narrow strips
• bakehouse
• blacksmith shop
• Church
• orchard
• common pasture
• mill (on the river)

To submit your assignment, take a video of you holding and describing your manor picture.

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