medieval England
Pre-Tudor British period
Medieval England refers to the period of English history from roughly the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the late 15th century, encompassing the feudal era of castles, knights, and the Catholic Church's dominance.
The term evokes a specific cultural image: a medieval England of jousting tournaments and peasant villages.
It appears in historical discussion and as shorthand for that society's hierarchies and customs.
- Peasants' RevoltMedieval English commoner rebellion
- pottageThick vegetable stew
- Norman ConquestFrench duke's English takeover
- peasantsLow-ranking agricultural workers
- feudalismLand-for-service social structure
feudal lord · lord of the manor · markets · villeins · monarchy · wool trade · nobility · trial by ordeal · Angevin Empire · illuminated manuscripts · coat of arms · guilds · serfdom · vassalage · Anglo-Saxon · King John · Hundred Years' War · mead
- Medieval Englandking, kings, castle, castles, knight
- Chaucer's WorldCanterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, Middle English, 14th century, pilgrimage
- Late Medievalfeudal lords, Black Death, knighthood, bubonic plague, plague doctors
- British historyWilliam the Conqueror, Victorian era, Elizabethan era, English Civil War, Tudor era
- Robin HoodRobin Hood, Friar Tuck, Little John, Maid Marian, Sheriff of Nottingham
- feudalismfief, vassal, fealty, homage, lord
medieval EnglandVictorian England
Nineteenth-century British imperial period
Renaissance Italy · ancient Rome · Tudor England · digital age · Roman Britain
medieval EnglandIslamic Golden Age
Medieval era of Arab scholarship
medieval Japan · Byzantine Empire · Aztec Empire · ancient Egypt · Mongol Empire
medieval Englandmodern democracy
Elected governance by citizens
egalitarian society · industrial capitalism · constitutional republic · technological utopia · classless society