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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.

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