We popped in a PlayMobil pope! The king who ruled over all…. The altar is made of clay and is covered in purple cloth, with a PlayMobil bible, golden jug and chalice. We painted a wooden cross gold and hung it above. I used one of our stain glass windows the children had made in a previous study, placing it behind a hole in the wall. Showing the whole diorama The church who prayed for all… Next we stuck the boxes together with a lidded one at the bottom for the peasants, then the castle for the knights, a palace for the king and the church for the priests right at the top: ![]() We made one into a castle by cutting turrets into its lid: The running shop near to us had saved us lots of boxes: I had the children write out the poem and stick in appropriate pictures to make a lovely note page: The Four Alls is a poem explaining the roles of each class in the feudal system. ![]() The final activity I had planned is called the Four Alls and is from this book: He began to explain some elaborate scam, whereby he would rent out the three patches to his sisters and give us a cut of his proceeds!! He he, gotta love that boy! Each child has a patch of land about 3m by 2m which we have already given them. He had, in his infinite wisdom, decided to set up a feudal system in our garden. It is always a joy to see our children using what they have learnt, but Gary and I had to giggle when T11 approached us yesterday with an idea. It was, as expected, the king who came out on top, ending up with 46 chocolates a whopping 460% of his original share of the harvest:Īnd just to show pictorially the proportions comparatively:Īfterwards the chocolates were shared out….democratically of course!! The nobles ended up with 22 chocolates, 220% of their original share of the harvest: From this 30 he needed to pay the king 6 chocolates from each knight who had paid his allegiance (a total of 18 chocolates). Here our knights are paid by 2 peasants and each noble is paid by 3 knights (in other words 6 peasants) thereby receiving 30 chocolates in addition to the 10 from the harvest. The nobles, although collecting the payment from the knights, were effectively being paid by the peasants at 5 chocolates each. This, in effect, was 120% of the original equal share of the harvest. In our illustration each knight had 2 peasants to protect and so ended up with 2 extra candies resulting in a total of 12 chocolates. Each knight, therefore, ended up with his 10 chocolates plus one each from the peasants he protected. Each peasant ended up with only 40 % of the original equal share in the harvest:Įach knight could keep his 10 chocolates (100%) but out of the 6 given to him by each peasant, he had to pay 5 to the noble to show his allegiance (called a payment of fidelity). ![]() Looks fairly even and fair so far, yes?Īccordingly each peasant had to pay 6 out of their 10 chocolates (60%) to their knights in return for their protection. Each class representative was alloted 10 chocolates from the yearly harvest. The peasants at the bottom and the king at the top. Here the figures are divided into the hierarchy of classes, according to the feudal system. Really you could use any proportions so long as there is only one king, more knights than nobles and more peasants than knights. ![]() I set our rather grubby table as shown below. I had thought the children understood feudalism but I this exercise showed they had missed the finer points of it. I did a practical demonstration of how feudalism worked using Play Mobil figures and chocolate. The King was voted the most desirable class to be in! I asked which class each child would have liked to belong to. The commoners then worked the land and paid rent to the knights in return for their protection. The nobles, in turn, rented out land to knights in return for their promise of allegiance. King William claimed all the land for himself and proceeded to rent out percentages of it to the nobles. Feudalism was introduced to Britain by the Normans after the battle of 1066.
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