how is life like for beggar in medieval england times?
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Life for anybody back then was hard and short. Even the wealthy had rigerous work loads and short life expectancies. Beggers had the worst of all. For many people who lived on the edge of starvation much of their lives petty thievery was literally a life or death issue. Strangers were considered thieves. Beggers tended to wander as they wore out their welcome. So a begger was often viewed with suspicion. They were invisible and many times people could openly kill one with impunity or the village might even cheer them on in the act. \n\nMedicine almost did not exist back then. For a begger it was out of reach. Nights spent in fields, injuries from wild and domestic animals, being chased by soldiers, bullies and even thieves, the low quality and quanity of food they would recieve. It made for health issues for even the strongest constitution. \n\nThink about eating moldy bread, untreated stream water tainted with raw sewage, berries and mushrooms scavaged from the woods and sorting through garbage piles from people who had very little concept of sanitation to start with. Picture  taking a bath only when you fell in a stream. Walking through streets where sewage ran down the middle of the street and likely gettting occasionally doused intentionally as often as not with a bucket of human waste. \n\nPicture summers as hot as an oven spent outdoors and winters freezing cold spent in barns or whatever refuge could be found. Being invisible at best to society and possibly hunted by it at times.
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Please refer to :\nhttp://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_era\nYou'll get all the details you sekk.
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Do you mean SERFS? They worked for the Lord of the Manor. Tilled his land several days a week, herded his animals, and whatever else needed doing around his manor.  It does not take place today - it's history.
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It depends on what class you belonged to and where you lived. There was a rigid class system, though the middle class gained a new prominence. Britain didn't have a welfare system back then, so there were lots of poor people living in slums in major cities like London. The poor often had to go to workhouses, or if they were lucky, they were sometimes employed as household servants. Alcoholism was rampant in the slums. Women were sometimes forced to take up prostitution in order to buy booze and to survive. There was a high infant mortality rate among the poor.\n\nThis is a very loaded question, but I hope I gave some helpful information.
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Only in the wealthiest families did one or more seamstresses live in the castle.  Those that did were usually the best and were treated very well.\nSeamstresses usually lived in the town and served more than one family.  See the references below:
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Could just sit in the middle of London and beg lol. Think! Hundreds of thousand of people go through it everyday, ok so you might not make a million straight away but i reckon if you had big puppy dof eyes you could swing it in a couple of months lol!
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1.The conquest\nCentralization\n\n2.Power of Henry I and Henry II\nNoble rebellions under Stephen\nDestruction of Castles\n\n3.England - Parliament\nMagna Carta 1215 - feud and               constitutional\nBarons Revolt 1265 - Simon de Montfort\nBarons, + reps from towns and shires.\nEdward I (1272-1307. used them to raise money.\nRegular Parliaments in early 14th century
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i think you are talking about feudal systems and googling that would help. the lords offered protection and the tenants worked the lands for in exchange for the safety provided. not a very fair system. i am copying some sites below. this link is from a k-12 school: http://www.mce.k12tn.net/middleages/feudalsystem.htm
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The answer to your question would be none, unless you consider Great Britain living under the provisions of the Magna Carta (1215) as living under the same government.
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They can average around $20 a day for a few hours "work".  They are usually NOT homeless.  I have heard that many of them refuse offers of work.\n\nMy grandson gave one outside our grocery store his allowance (4 quarters), and when we went to Pizza Hut after\nshopping, we saw him putting the quarters in the arcade game machine.\n\nIf you are planning on begging this way, be aware that there are territorial people (beggars) who will steal your money and beat you up.  There are also mean-spirited thugs who might attack.  In some areas thugs are going around with baseball bats and ruthlessly assaulting "bums".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan_era
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the king arthur you always get in the films and storybooks is a warlord of the medieval period - usually wearing armour and using battletactics of the period around 1200 (give or take a century).\n\nthat king arthur is entirely fictional. in 1200 there was no war in britain between the welsh and the saxons. the normans had conquered england at the lake of blood (senlac) in 1066 and between about 1100 and the peasants' revolt of 1381 the main friction in britain was between the english working- and middle-classes and their norman-french overlords.\n\nin a poem like 'sir gawain and the green knight' (written around 1350) you can see the fictional story of king arthur being used as a metaphor to talk about the very real 'war on terror' (ie 'war on ordinary people') that the british ruling class had going at the time.\n\n(you get a very similar thing these days. think about 'team america: world police').\n\nthe earliest mention of an actual war leader called 'arthur' is five hundred years earlier. nennius in the 700s talks of a celtic leader who led resistance against the invading german tribes (the people who would soon become the english) who was called arthur and who established a long-lasting peace after his victory at the battle of mount badon.\n\nan even earlier historian:- gildas (who lived in the 500s) - mentions the victory at badon and the peace that followed, but doesn't name the leader.\n\n....\n\nso there probably was a welsh resistance leader called 'arthur' who fought the saxon invaders (someone like al-zarqawi perhaps). this doesn't mean his name was 'arthur'. 'arth' in welsh means 'the bear', which sounds like a good nickname for a general specialising in defensive guerilla tactics.\n\nbut the medieval king who rallied the people of britain against the saxons never existed. by the medieval period the people of britain were the saxons.\n\n(by the medieval period even the welsh were starting to be 'british'. but that is a story for another day).
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This is what I found on that subject:\n\nThe Puritans lived in villages that consisted of four city blocks. Within these villages, relatives were placed together.  The Puritan families consisted of husband, wife and children.  The Puritan family was considered the basic unit of society in which the mother and the father had specific tasks.  The husband was in charge of his wife and he had all of the authority within the house.  He was to provide needs of the household, love and protect his family and teach his children about life which revolved around God.  The Puritans family life consisted largely of farming.  Both the men and women contributed to this way of life by planting and weeding from day to day.  Even though the majority of men were ministers, their professional trade also consisted of a variety of other tasks.  The females in the family were weavers, candle makers.  The women also tended to the garden, helped in the fields, and cut wood. In addition, the Puritan women bought metal, books, and cloth from barters for the family necessities.  Since God was the most important part in the Puritans life, prayer was a major part of their daily lives.  The Puritan families meditated and prayed before sleep at night, upon rising in the morning, on Saturdays, and at services.  They also found it necessary to record their spiritual experience in diaries.  Through their diaries, the Puritans lived their daily lives; around God and his plan.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail tends to make fun more of the romanticised view of knights and the middle ages created by Renaissance and Victorian story writers rather than real minstrels/ knights etc.\n\nThe minstrels in Holy Grail were depicted in this vein. In the romanticised version they were hangers on who just sang the praises of their lords (although in Holy Grail, the minstrels made fun of Sir Robin's cowardice instead - at least until they were eaten). Real minstrels were more likely to be multi-skilled high ranking servants in a court of a king or lord, specialising partly in entertainment, but also partly in retelling oral history. Minstrels were adept at recognising the emblems of lords and kings and would also act as heralds, and as signallers in battle (with trumpet or drum signals). Travelling minstrels (or troubadours) wandered the country earning what they could from entertaining the people. These tended to play coarser songs that appealed to the common people (they also tended to be thieves).\n\nThe idea of "courtly love" and protecting those in distress is also largely a victorian myth. Codes of Chivalry existed, about not killing those who had surrendered etc, but was only practiced amongst the knights themselves. If you were a peasant, you didn't count. The idea of knights storming castles to rescue damsels in distress, as Lancelot does when he storms Swamp Castle, were created by Victorian writers selling the idea that women were to be weak and submissive. In fact, Medieval women were not particularly weak and submissive and there are a number who were war heros in their own right.\n\nMonty Python and the Holy Grail is not a satire per se, but rather a gently pastiche of all of those swashbuckling movies of the 50s and 60s (often starring Errol Flynn or Burt Lancaster) that the Pythons probably remember watching as kids (mixed up for good measure with ideas from Dante etc that both Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam were fond of, hence the muck and disease). The animation comes about, partly because it's a recognisable element from "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and partly because they were working on a very small budget and couldn't afford anything better (hence also the coconuts). The "documentary" sequence with the Famous Historian were relics from earlier drafts of the script where Arthur's knights eventually found the Holy Grail in the modern day, in Harrods.
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find it at sparknotes.com its sponsered by barns and nobles so it should be pretty acurate here.
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(I hate to pick on the beggars.)\n\nWelcome to RuneScape, or MMORPG's for that matter.  Everyone is selfish.  Every man (or boy) is for himself.\n\nYour odds of being scammed 1million gp is exponentially higher than you being given something (anything for that matter) for free.\n\nThe best I can do is give you some FAQs'\n\nGameFAQs will cover your beginner-advanced trade skills and combat skills.  (trade skills are how you make money in RuneScape).\n\nhttp://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/online/game/562728.html
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Hi-Pretty good.  Just a few minor changes: \n\nThe most embarrassing experience I have ever encountered was when I once went out for dinner without taking money. One day, I had a dinner with a man. I was dressed up for the occasion but didn't take any money. We had a really good time. Unfortunately, he received an emergency call and had to leave immediately.  After he left, I realized I had no money to pay for the bill and didn't know what to do.  Finally, I decided to call my father to help me, and ever since then I've always carried money with me.