Part one of term paper
Mind your manners! Yes, my lord. To civilize is to Christianize! I work and I pay, I pray and I pay, I die and I pay. God wills it! Rich and poor alike in the Middle Ages were controlled by five specific institutions: the code of chivalry, the feudal system, Charlemagne, the manorial system and the Catholic Church. To encounter them was in ...

Part two of term paper
... icon to which they might aspire. This code of chivalry also included small acts of kindness and generosity to bind the men in the upper ranks of society by ties of property as well as loyalty. This way, men could rely on one another and feel a more firm sense of security and peacefulness. Similarly, the feudal system was created early in the Dark Ages to secure a sense of safety among the upper class. The feudal system involved the granting of land or a fief by a lord to his vassal. The lords and ...