House of Lords

Feudalism, England’s alternative to a government during the Middle Ages, played a significant role in the age of war and monarchs, and in some ways continues to have a role in today’s government. The workings of feudalism are simple. A king, or lord, gives land, also known as fiefs, ownership to nobles, also known as vassals, and in return for the king’s overall protection, the vassals would be responsible for providing their support and defense in the form of knights. In reciprocation for their…

In Europe the way of passing down knowledge was through apprenticeship. From the middle-ages where they passed down blacksmith and butchery. To now where they do culinary apprenticeships. Jacques Pepin was one of the best to have emerge from this styles of learning. From starting right front the age of 13 with just learning how to work a wood stove to coming to America by himself and changing the entire cooking game. However in the other side only 30 some years later in America was a young boy…

When we think of “Medieval England” we think about guys in armor suits, royalty ruling cruelly over their land and servants, and among other things, farms. However, medieval England- and medieval europe for that matter -isn’t that far from our own society today. We actually inherit many of the things that were created in the medieval times, such as the basic structure of land tenure that we now see as renting. Society in the Middle Ages may appear to be much different than ours today, but in…

farm, and they weren’t repaid fairly. Serf farmers had many responsibilities and had to cater to the lord’s needs. The lord of the manor controlled the work performed by the farmers. The farmers had to be able to work for hours on end every single day, do most of the lord’s work for them (such as weeding their land and selling their grain), and they were also expected to give the lord 40 eggs on easter (Howarth 9). When the serfs finished all their required work labors, they were expected to…

vassals. To ensure protection from these large landowners, also known as lords, these serfs and vassals had to give their services and pay large incomes to them. These incomes, imposed by the lord, were considered taxes. This system was known as feudalism, or the manorial system, which is a political, economic, and social system. Many kings and elite followed this system, having multiple vassals and serfs, as well as appointing lords, most of whom were his elite friends. An increased need for…

The system rested on a set of rights between a lord and his serfs. “The lord provided the serfs with housing, farmland, and protection from bandits” (Littel). In return serfs tend to the lord's land, care for his animals, and performed other tasks to maintain the wellbeing of the land. Peasant women shared some part of the work in the farm with their husbands. All of the peasants owed the lord certain duties because of what was provided from the lord. A few days of work each week was needed to…

“Ordinary Democratization: The Electoral Strategy That Won British Women the Vote,” by Dawn Langan Teele, outlines the path to women’s inclusion in voting. The reading conveys how the struggle, in which the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies formed a coalition with the Labour Party, eventually lead to women’s suffrage. By doing this, suffragists allowed women’s suffrage to be included in the 1918 Representation of the People Act. This path was not easy as it took years of hard work,…

Chain of Being, told everyone where they belonged in society. The Great Chain of being stated a place for everyone to be in. The king had to follow the pope. God was above all. Men were above women. Lords were above serfs. The chain of loyalty started from the Pope to the king, to lords, to the lord 's below them, and then finally, at the end of the chain were the serfs (Lenehan 4). The Great chain of being made the ties of the obligations connect to religion and this enforced it in a stricter…

request of me. Very calmly and sincerely, he asked me to pray that he would die. He went on to express that he had been richly blessed over the years and that he was confident that through his personal relationship with Jesus Christ as his Saviour and Lord that a wonderful heavenly future awaited him. He also had run a good race and had overcome many obstacles, and he was ready to receive his crown of victory. Yet, here he was naming this the place where he wanted to die and that this was the…

I am Joshua Harry, a student currently enrolled at College of the Ozarks. I am currently in my junior year of college, and as such I have firmly decided upon a major that fits my desire to serve the Lord and my community. My major is Culinary Arts, or the study and practice of preparing food, so that it provides needed nutrition, tastes good, is pleasant to view, and above all, is safe to consume. Cooking has always been a major part of my life, and because of this, I have decided to dedicate my…