Starter quiz
- Which word describes buying and selling products and services with the aim of making a profit?
- 'trade' ✓
- Norman towns in England often developed next to which of the following?
- hospitals and workshops
- castles and monasteries ✓
- stone circles and fields
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- How many new towns did the Normans create between 1066 and 1100?
- 11
- 21 ✓
- 32
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- Complete the sentence: Immigration from Normandy and ______ immigration were a feature of Norman town life.
- 'Jewish' ✓
- Which of the following were town occupations?
- pilots
- brewers ✓
- millers ✓
- potters ✓
- receptionists
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- As towns grew, merchants and craftspeople began to organise into guilds. Why did they do this?
- to control the quality and prices of their products ✓
- to form new friendships
- stop any competition from people outside the guild ✓
- William I had said they had to
- protect each other from being exploited by local lords or the sheriff ✓
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Exit quiz
- Which word describes a unit of land presided over by a lord?
- 'manor' ✓
- Which word describes a peasant who held between 15 and 30 acres of land and who worked the lord’s land for two or three days per week?
- 'villein' ✓
- Complete the sentence: Village life followed a ______ pattern.
- 'seasonal' ✓
- How many acres of land were farmed in Norman England?
- 2 million
- 4 million
- 6 million
- 8 million ✓
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- Which crops were grown following the Norman Conquest?
- rye ✓
- rice
- wheat ✓
- corn
- oats ✓
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- What percentage of freeman were there in 1086?
- 2%
- 12% ✓
- 22%
- 52%
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Key learning points
- Village life followed a seasonal pattern.
- Many features of village life stayed the same after the Norman conquest.
- Norman landholders often worked villagers harder and this was resented.
- The feudal system meant a decline in the numbers of freemen and a tighter control over villeins.
- Some villages in the north were destroyed during the Harrying of the North.
Common misconception
Village life was the same all over Norman England.
While there were many common features, the Viking settlement of the Danelaw meant that freemen in villages in the east were much more independent of the lord of their village's manor than in other parts of the country.
Keywords
Manor - a unit of land presided over by a lord
Demesne - the lord of a manor's land which was farmed for him
Villein - a peasant who held between 15 and 30 acres of land and who worked the lord’s land for two or three days per week; 40% of peasants were villeins in Norman England
Freeman - a peasant who held up to 100 acres of land which they rented from a lord for money; they were free to rent land from another lord if they chose to
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