The Peasants� revolt of 1381 Essay

that of feudalism. In this essay, I will discuss the development and eventual end of the feudal system, explain how the system operated, the links between the classes and what each classes role was. Finally, I will outline some of the advantages and disadvantages of the feudal system. I would…

The Hundred Years War was a series of battles between England and France in the period of 1337-1453. It’s one of the largest conflicts in medieval history. The War had influenced these two country’s political system, economic development and initiated the rose of nationalism. In this essay, I’m going to focus on why and how did the English finally lose the Hundred Years War. In fact, the English was not always inferior throughout the century. They used to have advantages in different…

what a slave is nor if a slave has any privileges. Epitomising this is the Mesoamerican examples of the Aztecs and the Maya. While the Mayans’ slaves were hereditary, the Aztecs’ were personal, so slaves’ children were free. Moreover slaves could own other slaves in this society, very rare in slavery throughout the world. Consequently it is perhaps naïve to define slavery as a whole as being social death. Social death itself is the condition of one group of people excluded from normal society,…

In his essays On Divine Dominion, On the Eucharist, and On Civil Dominion he taught accountability in stewardship both in the ecclesiastic and civil governments. Wycliffe declared that God alone ordained legitimate temporal dominion, both within the church and within governments, which should each be characterized by servitude to the people of God. To the ire of the Papacy, he claimed that government had the right, as appointed by God, to strip the unworthy clergy of all properties and wealth.…

The 'Battle for Bodiam ' became a debate on the function of Bodiam castle, but soon the debate included all castles that were built in the late Middle ages. In this essay I will talk about what were the original ideas behind Bodiam castle 's function, how those ideas were challenged, look into the archaeological, landscape and documentary evidence of the castle and its original owner and explain how they fit into the debate and whether this whole 'battle ' stagnated our understanding of…