IT WAS NOT EASY LIVING IN THE MIDDLE AGES. In the Middle Ages, from 400 AD to 1300 AD, there was a system called hierarchy. Hierarchy was the system of feudalism based on mutual obligations. The highest person in the royal system would be the king, the king has all the power and control over everyone. Next in the hierarchy would be the clergy, the clergy is full of Popes, bishops, archdeacons, abbot, priors, deans, priests and monks. You wouldn't think there were other people under the monks, but there were. After the monks came friars, clerics, vicars, barbers, surgeons, chaplains, confessors, scribes and culdeans. The people at the bottom of the hierarchy made up the peasant system. Some peasants had more rights than others, for example the vallien were the rich class of peasants. Serfs and common people lived in small communities, they could not leave or marry without their lord's permission. Then came the small landowners, they were the middle class peasants who cultivated more than a peasant, but less land than a vallien. Some people owned farms and worked on them. In the Middle Ages there were women and men who practiced Trappism. People chose to give their lives to churches because they found it a more attractive way to get closer to God. Women gave up everything to become nuns because they couldn't get an education. Once they became nuns, women could learn to read and write. As for men, they became monks because they were offered a quiet and peaceful place to escape from the violence of the world and get closer to their god. The women and men of the Middle Ages preferred to dedicate their lives to the churches, because they found in this a better lifestyle. In the middle... in the middle of the paper... and better. Life for them was fair to them but probably not understood by outsiders. They cared about nothing but their education, God, and the works of God. They prayed and worshiped all day and lived where the church was. People of their kind needed a quiet and peaceful way to get away from the violence of the streets. What if women and men couldn't become monks or nuns? Women would likely have no education or passion for God and His works. As for men, they would have no quiet place to independently confide in their god. Life would be different if the same rules applied today.Works Citedalchin, linda . "Ladies and gentlemen." gentlemen and ladies. Np, 16 July 2012. Web. 20 September 2012. <>. Eastwood, okay. women and girls in the Middle Ages. 305.4. manhattan: Crabtree Publishing Company, 2004. Print.