![]() The nobles of the Middle Ages were fierce and proud people. A peasant could do so, however, only with the consent of the noble on whose land he lived.ħ1. A man of any class might, of course, join the clergy. Whether a man was peasant or noble depended on his birth, for though a peasant might possibly rise to a noble position, this hardly ever happened. There were the clergy, such as, the bishops, priests, and monks who carried on the work of the church the peasants, who tilled the fields and did all the useful labor and the nobles, whose business it was to fight and to rule over the peasants, but wfio often spent much of their time in doing nothing at all that was useful. Later, towns and cities began to grow, but they were always small as compared with those we know to-day.Īll the people who lived in the country-that is to say, nearly everybody-belonged to one of three great social classes. During the earlier part of that time there were no towns or cities, and everybody lived in the country in much the same way. We think it scarcely honorable now for a person, even if he has a large fortune, not to engage in some useful work.īut in the Middle Ages it was not so. One who does not like the quiet life of the country may move to some town or bustling city and enter any trade he prefers. Now we have many different occupations, and a man may be a farmer, a merchant, a lawyer, or follow any one of countless trades or kinds of business just as he sees fit. In the Middle Ages people lived very different lives from those which we lead to-day. ![]()
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