Chapter 3 Life in the city. 1C

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Chapter 3 Life in the city.

Recap

• Students know what new agrarian advancements were made from 1000 AD onwards.
• Students can explain how agrarian surplus led to the rise of cities and urban-agrarian societies.
• Students know what the Hanseatic League was and how it functioned.

Homework

1. Read chapter 2 completely
   
2. Mark all the important sentences
   
3. A: 1 up to 5 & 7 up to 10.
   
4. M: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 & 8

Goals

• Students can explain why the people in the city wanted city rights.
• Students know what advantaces and disadvantnced these city rights had.
• Students can explain what important buildings you could find in a medieval city and what life was like in these cities.

City rights

• The cities were still part of a domain or demesne.
• The nobles or clergy who owned the domain made
  the rules.
• The city people, especially merchants, did not like this.
• The lords usually had littleunderstanding of commerce
  and trade.
• Worse, they treated the city folk like  serfs

City rights

• That is why the city merchants started to lobby for special
  rights and privileges. --> city rights.
• The citizens were called burghers.
• Together, they formed a new and powerful social class
  called the medieval bourgeoisie.

Disadvantages &  advantages of city rights

Disadvantages:

1. The burghers had to pay taxes.
2. They also had to support their lord during wartime.

Advantages:

1. The burghers had the right to build city walls and defences.
2.  They elected men from their own ranks as government officials.

The government officials.

• The schepenen:  elected men from the Burghers.
• Their decisions were overseen by two burgomasters, who were in charge of the town council.
• The schout: He was appointed directly by the lord and acted in his name. 
• The schout was responsible for administrative tasks, as well as for public order and justice.

In a city in the Late Middle Ages (1000-1500), you had laws (keuren). Did you not obey the law? Then you could face corporal punishment. Drag the 10 corporal punishments to the right place:

cutting off the ear

lashing

beheading

hack off

Hanging

Burning at the stake

waterproef

skinning alive

oog uitsteken

radbraken

Get to work!

1. Read lesson 3 up to 'What did the medieval city look like?'
2. Mark all the important sentences
   
3. Make exercises 1 up to 5
   

Goals

• Students can explain why the people in the city wanted city rights.
  
• Students know what advantaces and disadvantnced these city rights had.
  
• Students can explain what important buildings you could find in a medieval city and what life was like in these cities.

What did the medieval city look like?

• The centre of every town was the market.
• In the Netherlands and Germany, most towns also had a weigh house = where trade goods were weighed before their sale.
• Another building found near the market was the town hall = where the schout and schepenen held their meetings.

Video

Write down all the important places of a medieval city which you see in the video.

What was life like in a medieval town? 

Read 'What was life like in a medieval town?'

Write an piece of an diary of a baker living in a medieval city.

In this diary you need to implement the following keyterms: merchants, guilds, masters, apprentice, journeyman, masterpiece, charity and Black Death.

Done?

1. Read lesson 3 completely
2. Mark all the important sentences
3. Make exercises 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 & 15

Goals

• Students can explain why the people in the city wanted city rights.
  
• Students know what advantaces and disadvantnced these city rights had.
  
• Students can explain what important buildings you could find in a medieval city and what life was like in these cities.