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The term Reeve had two meanings in medieval England. During the Anglo-Saxon period the term refereed to an appointed official. They might supervise a town, a port, the holding of a noble, or a particular shire. The term shire-reeve is the origin of the modern work sheriff.
After the normal conquest the usage of the term changed. A reeve was still an official, but a much more minor one. A reeve was responsible for overseeing a lord's lands on a manor, organizing and directing the labor of the serfs, and also in some cases for collection of fees and rents and for duties such as selling the lord's farm produce. In some cases reeves were appointed by the lord, but there were also traditions where the reeve was elected by the villagers of the manor.
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What were relationships like in the Middle Ages?
The relationships in the middle ages were hard. They had to work on the farms and cook for themselves.
What kind of work were most people involved in during the middle ages?
During the Middle Ages, most people were farmers.
Why does a reeve wear a horn in the middle ages?
I spent some time researching this, and was unable to find a reference to a reeve wearing or carrying a horn. What I did find was that haywards, who were manorial officers assigned the job of seeing that the fences and hedgerows were in good order, carried horns which they blew if animals got out of an enclosure.
What was a explorers in a Middle Ages?
There was no explorers in the middle ages. When exploration started that is when the middle ages ended.
What period of time preceded the Middle Ages and what time period came after the Middle Ages?
Before the middle ages was Anquity (Greeks and Romans) and after the middle ages was the Renissance
