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kazaz_bc Member |
posted 04-05-2001 07:37 PM
 
Hey, i am 13 years old and i am doing a social studies project with my friend. It is on Castles of the Middle Ages and we were haveing touble finding information with on of our topick, Land Around tha Castle. We asked our teacher what the question ment and she said that it had to do with the type of land arounf the castle (grass?dirt? etc.) and what was around it (like villages, andything interesting). So basically, we need help on things out side the castle waslls in the rest of the kingdom. Can you guys PLEASE HELP US!!!! THANK YOU SOOO MUCH! BYE! shan |
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Merlin Senior Member |
posted 04-06-2001 02:11 AM
Not an easy one. To start with, it's best to understand a castle as the economic, social and political centre of a certain area. The nobleman who owned the castle (and it doesn't have to be the same that lived in it) may also own some estates around it: forrests, fields and small villages or even a town with a market. These posessions in most cases did not form something like a closed territory . It may be that one part of a forrest was in the posession of an abbey, a church or the king himself, whereas another part belonged to the castle nearby. Or some part of a village was in the posession of a lord who lived far away, whereas another part and the feudal rights over the whole area (as jurisdiction) was connected to the castle. So things could be very complicated. The castle was very often itself the centre of a farm, and the people of the villages in the nobleman's posession were obliged to work a certain number of days on that fields. Hope this helps... |
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Gordon unregistered |
posted 04-06-2001 02:24 AM
In Scotland there was also a good deal of variety. Many of our tower houses were essentially fortified farm houses, administrative and domestic centres for a farming community with a legal requirement to fortify due to English incurions. Cultivated land, would therefore have been the scene with long strips of land (riggs as opposed to fileds) allocated for each crop and open grazing for cattle. In the highlands, the land was not so fertile, and rather wild and barren in places, and the scene would have been much as it is today, with remote castles sitting amongst the hills and glens, with a few sheep and 'black cattle' straying about. Another model was the lowland baronial seat, where the traditional medieval town plan was prominent, castle and church at oposite ends of a long main street, with this lined by houses and sthops, each with a long narrow portion of land strung out behind. Close by would be a mound which acted as a gallowshill, and another which acted as the meet, or court hill where trials took place. The link below may be helpful. http://www.britannica.com/magazine?ebsco_id=7397 |
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