A Day in the Middle Ages
Imagine, one morning you wake up in an unfamiliar place. You wake up not in your home, but on a straw mattress in a cold, almost bare room. You wake up in Europe in the year 1250 AD. You are in a middle class home in the Middle Ages. Having little knowledge of the medieval culture, you may have a few questions. What do I eat? What do I say? What do I wear? What do I do if I get sick? What do I do for fun? Going through a day in a foreign time and place can be difficult. However, knowledge of on the food, vocabulary, clothing, medicine, and recreation of the medieval will help you through a day in the Middle Ages. After waking up in your unfamiliar setting, the first meal you will get is breakfast, served after morning mass. This is a small snack that consists of a hunk of bread and some ale or cider.1 After breakfast, dinner is served sometime between ten o'clock and noon. This is the largest meal of the day. Supper is another light meal served near the time of sunset. The table at a meal is covered with a tablecloth that has on side reaching all the way to the floor. This is the side where places are set, the extra cloth is used as a napkin. Instead of plates, day old flat pieces of bread, called
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Approximate Word count = 2480
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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