HIST 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Manorial Court, Serfdom, Toleration
24 Jan 2017
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Vibia perpetua refuses to make the sacrifice and she is sentenced to death: refusal to (cid:373)ake sacrifices for the e(cid:373)peror"s is co(cid:374)sidered treaso(cid:374, she remained true to her christian faith. She renounced her family ties and her role as a mother. 313: persecution ended when emperor constantine issued the edict of milan that granted religious toleration. 392: emperor theodosius made christianity the state religion. Medieval society: western europe in the high middle ages. The middle ages: 6th-14th centuries: the economy was predominately agricultural (rural) Based on the land: the medieval conception of society: the three orders. The monk (those who pray, members of the clergy) Those who fight: nobles acquired military power (possession of an army) through a ceremony known as vassalage. Vassalage: a ceremony in which a knight pledged his personal loyalty and military service to said nobleman. The knight became a vassal and the nobleman becomes his lord. In return the lord gave the vassal a fief.
