1. By: Madison Walsh Period 5/6
Women’s Daily Lives
By: Madison Walsh
Period 5/6

2. Poor Women’s Clothing Essential Question: What did poor women wear?
Made own clothes
Fitted Clothes
Woolen clothing, woolen socks
Linen undergarments
Long dresses
Headwear
Warm hats, mittens, scarves in the winter
Sleeveless tunics became a fashion
Undergarments were washed often
Leather shoes

3. Rich Women’s Clothing Essential Question: What did rich women wear?
Bright colored clothing
Better, expensive materials
Beautiful flowing gowns
Elaborate headwear
Headwear in shapes
Longer jacket lengths
Lavish jewelry and fur
Gems used as jewelry
Fur undergarments for warmth
Garnished with silver

4. Poor Women’s Fun Essential Question: What did poor women do for fun?
Women did many things for fun
Played board games
Bobbed for apples
Made riddles
Went on picnics
Enjoyed hunting w/ trained falcon
Sometimes combined
Reading to aloud or quietly
Writing poetry
Blind Man’s Bluff

5. Rich Women’s Meals Essential Question: What did a rich women eat?
Wealthy women had much variety
Meats were very popular
Good meats
Sprinkled meat in salt to preserve it
Many vegetables
Home- grown garden herbs
Didn’t have plates
Trenchers
Decorated meats
Put sauce on rotted meats

6. Rich Women Housing Essential Question: What houses did they live in?
Had wealthy stone houses
Only some brick; it was expensive
Half- timbered, half- brick
Houses had roofs
Most included stone ovens
Section of living room
Later on, chimneys were used often
Glass windows was used, too
Two or more floors
Servants slept on second floors

7. Poor Women Housing Essential Question: What houses did they live in?
Used sticks, straw, and mud to build
One room, one floor houses
Sometimes shared with their animals
Made houses
Wattle daub houses
Straw and timber
Wider and taller
Protection from weather
Barns
Used mud for walls

8. Poor Women Roles Essential Question: What was the role of poor women?
Worked on fields
Expected to work as hard as men
Gave birth
Had to obey any male member
If religious, became a nun
Supplied daily meals
Took care of the young children
Didn’t advance in skill groups
Took over business and land
House work

9. Rich Women Roles
Essential Question: What was the role of a rich women?
Large role in society
More control than peasants
Ran estate when absent husband
Step in, take control
Made living
Had arranged marriages
Highly adored
Took care of children also
Beaten if misbehaved
Still had to obey males

10. Rich Women Education Essential Question: What was their education?
Encouraged for women
Education flourished
Learned privately
Attended school
Needed obligations
Better teachers
Education required for nuns
Permitted to join brothers sessions
Devoted time to learn
Studied languages

11. Poor Women Education
Essential Question: What was the women’s education?
Most were illiterate
Educated before 14
Studied Latin
Latin was English 1,000 years ago
Couldn’t afford education
Study books expensive
Reading, writing, etc.
Started at childhood
Ignorant upper class
Still had to obey males

12. Quiz Answer 1- 10 true or false:
Women didn’t wear undergarments. _________
Rich women wore bright colored clothes. _________
Rich women never played board games. ________
Meats weren’t very popular. ________
Some rich houses were half timber, half brick. ________
Poor women used mud walls in their houses. ________
Poor women didn’t have to obey males. ________
Rich women had arranged marriages. ________
Rich women didn’t have good teachers. ________
All poor women could afford education. ________

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