Questios about middle ages! I bet you can't answer them!?

Question

1. What was the relationship between the commong people and the nobles?

2. How have painters shown the wealth and luxury these nobles enjoyed?

3. What were the main advanntages and disadvantages of manor economy?

Answer 1

Since I actually read my history textbooks when I went to school, I'm sure I could figure this out.

Answer 2

1) In the feudal times, commoners owed loyalty and the "substance" of their existence to those who essentially owned them, the nobles over them. There are issues, however, in which the feudal lords were usually not in "absolute" authority, like in ancient middle eastern kingdoms but it was functionally close.

2) Artists answered the commissions of those who could afford them. They usually didn't do art for art's sake, or if they did it was limited in quantity and scope. When a rich person wanted a portrait or entertainment or household embellishment, that meant the artist would represent what the patron felt valuable. Very few wanted themselves pictured before filthy hovels of the impoverished populace, they wanted their new barn or prize bull or manicured vineyard or summer palace in the background of what represented them to their posterity.

3) The advantage of the manor economy is the stability offered to the community of the lord of the manor. If the lord of the manor ate well, he paid people to produce his dinner. If the lord of the manor was dressed well, then local tailors and fabric makers were paid for their best work or it was taken to someone who could do better.

Even with today, the luxury of today's luxury cars will be standard equipment in the future. The ability to do something very well needs the support of those able to pay for those exceptional things. The perpetuation of those superlative methods and techniques raises the bar on what is normal. The problem with the medieval times was to sustain or restore the arts and trades that were lost in the centuries before.

Answer 3

1. refer to economy before industrial revolution.
2. i recommend you to analyse paintings such as the ones of the Van eyck brothers, there are very clear symbols of wealth (think of what the people could import to their castle if they were really rich).
3. refer to your history books.

Answer 4

Do you have any idea how obvious it is that this is simply your homework, and you're making it sound like an intelligence contest? Grow up.

Answer 5

Nice try with the reverse psychology.

Now do your homework.

Answer 6

I'll bet I can.