Medieval Vocabulary-World History Book Ch. 11
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- Middle Ages
- The Time period ranging from the fall of rome to the renaissance
- Medieval
- The Middle Ages, a time between the classical Ancient Greek, Roman times and the Renaissance which seemed like multiple steps backward in time.
- Feudalism
- Medieval Europe political system comprised of a set of legal and military obligations, revolving around the three key concepts of lords, vassals, and fiefs.
- Vassal
- One who recieves land from a lord in order for a service, usually a fully equipped military force
- Fief
- Land granted by a lord to a vassal, or inherited land
- Primogeniture
- Common law that the first born of multiple sibling inherits the families land, established in the Middle Ages
- Manor
- A large piece of land, consisting of a manor house, or estate, an accompying village, and church. And a lot of natural surrounding land, where work on the land providing food for themselves and the manor.
- Serfs
- Persons who are bound to the manor and cannot leave without the lords permission
- Chivalry
- Code of conduct for all knights, known as a very formal form of manners
- Interdict
- The closing of churches(which prevents marials and buriels...) by the church to stop rebellions.
- Sacraments
- A rite in which god is uniquely active
- Monasticism
- The practice of being a monk or nun, where one devotes ones life to a pure, perfect, life away from the 'impuraties' of the world.
- Abbot
- the elected community leader of a Monastery or Convent
- Canon Laws
- The churches on set of rules
- Tithe
- 1/10 of a persons wage to support the church
- Simony
- The crime of paying for a holy office or position in the hirearchy of the christian church
- Inquisition
- Anyone suspected of heresy could be tortured or questionned to confess
- Shires
- And administrative diving of britain
- Magna Carta
- Requires the king to follow certain rules and not to violate the church or people
- Common Law
- A type of law based on judges decisions rather than on code os statutes.