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The queens and kings wore fancy clothing. Queens= long dresses, crown/tiara, and nice shoes. She was always presentable. Kings= fancy robes/cloaks. A large crown. Always looked his best. Servants= tunics, hip height belts, plain. hat to protect eyes from the sun, Normal citizen=wore a long sleeve tunic, about shin length, under a short sleeve tunic. usually shades of brown, nothing like pink or anything. Belt, hip height. comfortable shoes
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∙ 14y agoThe Middle Ages is often used to describe the 1000 year period from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance. There are some things that were generally true about clothing then.
Fabric was linen and wool. Anything else was a rare and expensive import.
Cloth was about the most expensive commodity there was. Women in particular spent their days spinning, weaving, and sewing. Noble women embroidered. Because of this, patterns were very thrifty of cloth, which was generally woven on looms that would seem narrow today. The patterns remind you of tangrams: rectangles and triangles that use all of the precious cloth.
Knitting was unknown, although in a few places there was a kind of knotting that looked like it (naalbinding).
Colors were made with vegetable dyes and some basic mordants. If you've ever tried this, you know how hard it is to get a strong, dark color. So, contrary to popular myth, pastels were common. Bold colors were a sign of wealth. So was bleaching.
Nearly everyone walked. A few nobles rode. Trousers, if they were worn at all, were like modern hiking clothes: short pants and removable leggings. Only in the far north (think Vikings) did anyone wear one-piece trousers.
Linen would go next to the skin, with wool for outer garments, just as today. Remember that this was mostly before the Little Ice Age of the 14th-19th centuries, so temperatures were warm--even warmer than today.
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∙ 9y agoIn medieval times, a woman would typically wear a smock, hose, kirtle, gown, surcoat, girdle, cape, hood, and a bonnet. The clothes were made from wool, fur, or cambric; richer women wore silk or linen garments as well.
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∙ 15y agowomen of the middle ages dressed according to their class. although all women wore dresses, the quality of the fabric, color and the design varied on the class. very rich women wore many layers of brightly colored skirts and corsets. usually made of very heavy fabric or silk, the dresses were generally very expensive. women of the middle class tended to where less bright colors and usually didnt where corsets. women of the lower class useally wore brown or gray clothing that was only designed to be practical and inexpensive.
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∙ 12y agoNoblewomen in the Middle Ages wore silky skirts and dresses. There were many layers that they wore under their dresses, which made their daily lives very sweaty.
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What kind of work were most people involved in during the middle ages?
During the Middle Ages, most people were farmers.
What were weavers of the middle ages?
weavers were people that would transform the fiber into threads and then weave those threads into the cloth. cloth would be sold to taylors in cities, or directly to the citizen, to create clothes. however, not everyone could affort a Taylor and most more modest houses would have their maid or wifes / daughters do this kind of work.
What kind of clothes did people wear in 1600?
they wear suits and girl wear fancy dresses.
What kind of clothing for the middle class in medieval times?
aeropostale and hollister.rags and paper towlesshoes were period shoes!Answer No they did NOT wear hollister aerocrombie etc.. They wore things such as tunicsAnswer As well as wearing tunics they also wore trousers and shawls but their clothes were very rough
What was good about the middle ages?
There were a lot of good things about the Middle Ages. And many of the things we think of as bad were not real.People of the middle ages were rather clean, for the most part. The idea that they were dirty and smelly might have come from Hollywood, or it might have been a self congratulatory myth created in the Renaissance, but the medieval people believed that the attention a person put into keeping his body clean was an indication of how he attended to the needs of his soul; cleanliness is next to godliness. They also believed that bad air spread disease, so it was important not to let things get smelly. (please see link on bathing below)Contrary to popular myth, medieval people were not particularly superstitious. Witch hunts, for example, did not really begin to happen a lot until the Renaissance and later times. The legal codes of Charlemagne and some of the Germanic tribes forbade even believing in witches, and made burning people for witchcraft a capital crime. (please see the link below on witch hunts)There were great advances in science and mathematics during the Middle Ages, and some of these must have been quite exciting. Some of them were simple matters of inventive engineering, such as the 11th century invention of the chimney, which made it possible for the first time in history to have a real fireplace (believe it or not). Arabic numerals came into use, so, for example, you could divide 247 by 19 to get 13, instead of dividing CCXLVII by XIX to get XIII. Advances in agriculture improved efficiency on farms enormously, making cities larger and more numerous than they could be under the Roman Empire. (please see the link on medieval technology, below)Some really great art and architecture was done in the Middle Ages. We have a myth that the Germanic tribes, for example, were made up of rude, destructive people, and seem to want to believe they had no culture of value. The artwork in the shoulder clasp found at Sutton Hoo is a magnificent example of jewelry that shows, by itself, how wrong this myth actually is. Gothic art and architecture is renowned. So is Byzantine art, and so is the Romanesque. (please see the link below on medieval art)The Middle Ages saw the development of musical styles and genres that were very advanced and very important culturally. The development of written music, taking into account relative pitch and timing, meant that for the first time, music could be composed in notation that we can decipher today. Polyphony developed into the richest form it had ever seen with medieval counterpoint. And the minstrels, troubadours, jongleurs, gleemen, and other bards, spread both the music and the culture behind it throughout Europe. Both for the musician, and for the listener, these were exciting times. (please see the link below on medieval music)The literature of the Middle Ages grew apace. There was always interest in theology, as people remain aware. But secular literature developed also. Taliesin, the Welsh poet, worked in the 6th century. Beowulf was an great Anglo-Saxon epic. Other literature developed, but in the High Middle Ages, there was a cultural blossoming that was quite remarkable. Fostered by such people as Duke William IX the Troubadour of Aquitaine, and his granddaughter, Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine, who was also Queen of France and Queen of England, medieval literature took on new character. Stories that had already begun to be told were woven into cycles we still remember today, such as the stories of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. Thomas Malory wrote Le Morte d'Arthur, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, and Dante wrote The Divine Comedy, all in the Middle Ages. (please see the link below on medieval literature)Now, if you are quite attentive and knowledgeable, and if you check the reference below on medieval literature, you will notice something very puzzling. The reference says, "Since Latin was the language of the Roman Catholic Church, which dominated Western and Central Europe, and since the Church was virtually the only source of education, Latin was a common language for Medieval writings, even in some parts of Europe that were never Romanized." Now this seems really strange in light of one thing; none of the works mentioned in the paragraph above was in Latin. And this points to a Great but Secret Truth about the Middle Ages: "Sometimes History is Wrong." The neat thing is that enough clues exist to tell us what the truth is, and why it is misunderstood. Education was not all from the Catholic Church. Secular education existed and was promoted by governments. Consider the following: First, in the year 700 AD, a school called the Beverley Grammar School was opened in Northumbria, supported by the state, not the church. The area it was in passed under control of Vikings for several decades, but the school remained open. When the Viking Danelaw was united with England, the school remained open, and it remains open to this day, as the sixth oldest school in England. (please see the link below to the list of the oldest schools in the world) Second, King Alfred the Great promoted education and started schools. His stated policy goal was to provide education to all who were free men (peasants not bound to the soil) or of higher rank in English. He subsidized the translation of great books into English, so ordinary people could read them. (please see the link below to an article on King Alfred the Great) The clear lesson is that there was a lot going on culturally that historians do not focus on much, and one such thing is that our ideas about medieval education are very much out of line with reality.Even if we focus on the lives of the poor serfs, we can find some good to discuss. It is true that serfs were not rich (at least not usually), and it is true that they lacked a right to move off the manorial estate on which they lived without permission of their lord. But the idea that they were abused slaves is not true, the idea that they had no rights is not true, and the idea that their lives were uniformly miserable is, obviously, not true. Consider this: in many places, in many times, a serf who ran off the manor was considered free, if he could stay away for a year. We might wonder why a person would not prefer freedom. The penalty, if one was caught, was not severe, and yet most serfs did not run away. The answer to this puzzle lies in the fact that the serf was not without rights, he had a right to a place to live, he had a right to fields to work, and he had a right to protection. These rights could not be alienated by a lord arbitrarily. If the manor was sold, the serfs still had a right to live there, and the new lord had to respect that. The serfs who ran away gave up those rights, and had to fend for himself. I know a few people today who might want to give up the right to move away with out permission, if it meant that they had a permanent job, a permanent place to live, and protection. (please see the link below on serfdom)Ultimately, in the Middle Ages, one thing could be relied on, and that was the Church. The Church provided more than just salvation for the soul. It also provided the best health care people could get, and even when that meant nothing more than a bed, meals, a prayer, and a kind word, it was much better than the common alternative. The Church provided ecclesiastical courts that were more merciful than secular courts, were not permitted to torture anyone, and could be appealed to by anyone who could read the 51st Psalm, the standard test for literacy. The Church provided sanctuary for fugitives, whether it was a serf woman fleeing her husband, a Queen fleeing her husband, or an ordinary felon (who might only get sanctuary for a period of a few weeks, but it gave him time to repent, and possibly to learn to read the 51st Psalm). (please see the link below on the medieval right of asylum)
What kind of work were most people doing in the middle ages?
During the Middle Ages, most people were farmers.
What kind of work were most people involved in during the middle ages?
During the Middle Ages, most people were farmers.
What kind of clothes did knights wear in the middle ages?
They wore metal armor to protect themselfs.
What kind of clothes did the middle ages people wear?
Usually linen or wool tunics in the Roman style. Clothing didn't change much. If they had money they would be able to afford leather shoes and a cloak.
What kind of work were most peope invlved in during the middle ages?
90% of the people were farming.
What kind of toys were there in the middle ages?
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What kind of clothes do Filipino people wear?
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What kind of food did the colonists eat in new york in the middle ages?
Colonists weren't in New York during the middle ages!
What does minne refer to?
"Minne" refers to courtly love, the kind of love that people would sing and write about in the Middle Ages.
Why are tailors important to the middle ages?
In the middle Ages, the clothing defined one's status in the society. There was a pyramid kind of way of dressing in that those people who are on the leadership levels could not wear the same clothes as peasants.
How the Middle Ages was a departure from the Renaissance?
Here is a quick answer. The middle ages was different from the renaissance because the renaissance was basicly a time when the arts music and science reawakened and had some advances to it. People were more interested about art, music, literature, and science in the renaissance. During the middle ages it was not as important to the people, so when the renaissance came the arts were kind of reintroduced to the people. The renaissance lasted from about 1300 to 1600.
Do people still use catapults?
The catapault was used mainly in war. The catapault was made in the middle ages, a kind of cousin of a cannon.
