![]() The fire would have been in the center, but without a chimney. In the 15th Century, if you were part of a middle class or wealthy land owner’s estate, you may have lived in a “Hall,” a communal living space consisting of one large, tall room, that you would share with your family and servants. However, you may not survive the next several rounds of plague, so hedge your bets.Ĭommunal living is all the rage. So you can make more money and, in turn, afford better living accommodations. Then along comes the Black Plague that k ills a ton of people, which means workers are scarce. This will be the standard for the lower classes throughout the Middle Ages. You would not have been able to afford bricks or a tiled roof. Reeds or thrushes would have covered the dirt floor. Homes were simple one room structures built with sticks, wattle, and thatched roof. So let’s take a gander at how the serfs, peasants, and lower classes lived.įun side note: In France, there is an experimental archeological site where they are building a castle using historic techniques. They had castles and stuff." And I would look at you and say, “Wrong!” The everyday run of the mill person didn’t live in a castle – that’s way fancy. And maybe you are thinking, “Look, it can’t be all bad. Dustin and I, circa 2011.īetween all the history, people in the Middle Ages were busy just staying alive. 1 Forgive the lighting, they keep it dark in those restaurants. ![]() Honestly, these don’t necessarily interest me, but people's homes do. Within these styles, architecture was focused mostly on civic, military, and religious buildings. ![]() Then Gothic style comes along all high and mighty (for reals though those cathedrals were tall and mighty). The first two play off Roman architecture because that’s what people saw around them and understood, but it was a romanticized version. Within the medieval time period, humanity went through at least three distinct architectural styles: Pre-Romanesque, Romanesque, and Gothic (each of which could be further divided). And as we all know lots can happen in that amount of time – famines, wars, crusades, a Schism or two, Black Death, ya know, the usual. The Medieval Period, or Middle Ages, covers a lot of time-like, one thousand years a lot (about 500-1500 AD). When someone says the word “medieval”, it may conjure up thoughts of knights, castles, Monty Python, or Medieval Times Restaurant. ![]()
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