Food, Social Roles and Daily Life Flashcards

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What was the main food eaten by most peasants in Norman England?

Most peasants ate bread and pottage, a thick stew made with grains, beans and vegetables.

Nobles ate more meat and fish, white bread, imported wine and foods with expensive spices and sugar.

Bread was the main part of most meals. Poor people ate coarse brown bread, while the rich ate fine white bread.

The Church set fast days, like Fridays and Lent, when people should not eat meat and often ate fish instead.

Peasants worked from sunrise to sunset, farming the lord’s land and their own strips, and caring for animals.

Women cooked, baked, made cloth, brewed ale, cared for children and helped with planting and harvesting.

Children scared birds from crops, collected firewood, fetched water, minded animals and helped with simple farm work.

The king gave land to barons, barons to knights, and peasants worked the land in return for protection and rent.

Most peasants lived in small wooden huts with wattle and daub walls, thatched roofs, an open fire and packed earth floors.

Nobles hunted deer, trained for war, held feasts, listened to music and sometimes watched tournaments.