ACS 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Très Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry, Secular Clergy, Regular Clergy

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 300
• Professor: Jo Kornegay

Document Summary

Lecture: europe at the end of the medieval. The portugeuse state, french state and english state. 3 social groups or orders or estates: the clergy, the nobles, the commoners. Regular clergy:- considered to be more perfect and live a more christian life than the secular clergy. Prayer, work, self sufficient, very aesthetic, no sex. Eite of medieval and early modern society. The third estate: the commoners: the peasants. Pay various taxes and dues to the lord and the king. Pay (cid:862)tithe(cid:863) 10% tax to the church.