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CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
LESSON 6
LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
1. WORK IN GROUPS.
1. Read the text under the picture allotted to your group. Match the text with one of the headings below.
To the class what the text was about.
b. Books
c. Written records d. Fashion e. Visual chronicles
a. Its
2
3
5
William of Normandy, who had 2. Houses and castles were cold and 3. Embroidery was an Anglo-Saxon
Stronquered England in 1066, decided he draughty, so clothes were often made of craft. The most famous piece of
needed a complete list of his possessions linen or wool. Shoes with long toes embroidery which has survived (the
there. The result of the investigation were fashionable for many years. A
ein
Ilth century), is a piece of linen,
ineluded not only royal estates but also prince could wear pointed shoes 60 cm. embroidered in 8 colours, about 80
iets about the population, the divisions long if he wanted, not to trip over, the yards long. It tells about the Battle of
of the land, etc. This very complicated toes were tied to the legs. Rich people Hastings in 1066. It can still be seen
work, written in Latin, was called "The wore fine woollen clothes adorned with today in the town of Bayeux in non-
Domesday Book" (The Book of jewellery and fur
west France
Judgement).
estate /is'teit - moşie
Domesday du:mzdeil - Judecata de
Apoi
draughty 'draft/ -expus la curent
M
linen/linan - pânză
to trip over- /trip '
evo/a se
poticni
to embroider im'broide - a broda
RADEXICFRATHI , craft kra:ft - meşteşug
ENSBOSBOUX
tapestry / 'tzepestri / -tapiserio
eram CICERS
Bayeux / baju
stained glass - Vitraliu
coat of arms - blazon
When glass was very scarce and 5. The first English printer was William
lettering leterin/ - litere scrise
Windows small, stained glass represented Caxton. His first book was published in
goose quillgurs kwill
cxceptional feature in adorning
1453. But before that, books were hand-
- pana de gasca
burches. They served the aim of the written. Many medieval people must
illuminator
tists to tell stories clearly, without
have ignored the text and admired the
i'lumneita/ - iluminator (decorator
words. In the later years of the Middle
design, the lettering, the colouring and
de vechi manuscrise)
es stained glass became more
the pictures. Each book represented
common. Towards the end of the Middle hours of patient labour. The scribe
Aves, heraldic designs took on a great
wrote in ink with a goose quill, and the
a portance. Noble fitmilies displayed in
ilhminator worked with gold -and-
their homes coat of anns in stained glass silver-leaf, as well as paints
ndows
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