Tuesday, May 17, 2011

How were womans life in medival times?

Woman should be obedient to their father and husband, most women worked alongside of their husband or they just worked for living. Most peasant woman worked with their husband in fields having to fed and clothe family. Today woman work but some are stay at moms but that normal in modern time. But some married couples work together in the same build but not often. Craftsmen’s wives and daughters usually found work in workshops and as trade’s men too. Wealthy woman ran household and sometimes ran husband’s affairs few high powered woman ran national events. Woman ran husbands large estates when they died in battle or court or on crusade.

What did children do during the middle ages?

Children’s crusades when, where, and how?


 
Young children spent most of their days playing with toys and making up games and just having fun. I would love to live in a time like that no chores yeahh! Around 7 children started to learning lessons and chores. Booo no one wants to learn how too clean but hey you got to learn how to rely on you not other. When children were between twelve or fourteen young adults rather they had to work. Now in modern time we start work round 16 if we want but it optional in some families I know in mine it’s not. Depending on place in society or social class is how you lived as a child but really based on place of parents.

How were babies cared for when they were born?

Babies and Childbirth


When a child was born the mother would wrap the baby tightly in a cloth to keep warm and help the baby’s legs and arms grow straight. Wow today when a baby is born you just put clothes on the thing duh. Babies also wore diapers’ made of rags, undershirts, bonnets, bibs, and booties. Babies bathed in small buckets or pots with water and homemade soap. Now a day’s people just go to the bath and body shop and get smell good show gel and lotion.
This how the mother fed the baby only by breast milk. If you were wealthy you hired a nurse to feed your baby with her own breast milk. Babies were breast fed until two or three. Then when the kids were old enough they were fed table food and the mom would chew the food and fed it to the baby.

What did peasant children do with their family?

Peasant children

Peasant children spent their days helping in their parents grows food, raise livestock, and do chores. Peasants lived in little cottages that were often dark and smoky because no windows and cooked on an open grill in the main room. Peasants didn’t have much furniture but had stools and trestle tables. Slept on straw mats some had lofts animals lived in peasant homes but in pens big animals like oxen and pigs were outside.
Children herded geese, scaring birds away from newly plants seeds, gathering fruits, nuts and collecting eggs from chickens. Older boys learned to plant and harvest crops, guide plow care for plow animals repair tools learn trade blacksmith and milling. Blacksmith made tools cut iron miller grounded grain. Peasant girls milked cows fed chickens led sheep to pasture learned to cook and preserve food. Girls or woman made clothes, tended to the garden,made medicines from herbs and spices they grew. some peasants moved in cities but some stated on the manor with nobles. Boys also cleaned stables,worked in kitchen and worked with hunting dogs. girls were maids cooked clean and did laundry.