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- in feudal europe a person who controlled land and could therefore grant estates to vassals
- lord
- an estate granted to a vassal by a lord under the feudal system in medieval europe
- fief
- a person who received a grant of land from a lord in exchange for a pledge of loyalty and services
- vassal
- an armored warrior who fought on horseback
- knights
- peasant legally bound to live on a lord's estate
- serfs
- a lord's estate in feudal georgia
- manor
- a familys payment of one tenth of its income to a church
- tithe
- a code of behavior for knights in medieval euripe stressing ideals such as courage, loyalty, and devotion
- chivalry
- a mock battle between groups of knights
- tournaments
- a medieval poet and musician who traveled fromplace to place entertaining people with songs of courtly love
- troubadours
- a body of officials who perform religous services such as priests, ministers, or rabbis
- clergy
- one of the christian ceremonies in which god's grace is transmitted to people
- sacraments
- the body of laws governing the religous practices of a christian church
- canon law
- the appointment of religous officials by kings or nobles
- lay investiture
- an empire established in europe consisting mainly of lands in what is now germany and italy
- holy roman empire
- the selling or buying of a position in a christian church
- simony
- a roman catholic tribunal for investigating and prosecuting charges of hersey
- inquisition
- an association of people working at the same occupation which controlled its members wages and prices
- guild
- the expansion of trade and business that transformed european economies
- commercial revolution
- a scholar who wrote the summa theologicae. his great work combined ancient greek thought with the christian thought of his time
- thomas aquinas
- scholars who gathered and taugh at medieval european universities
- scholastica
- duke of normandy, invaded danish throne
- william the conqueror
- a document quaranteeing basic political rights in england, drawn up by nobles
- magna carta
- ruled the frankish kingdom
- charlemagne
- a duke from france that began the capetian dynasty
- hugh capet
- a deadly disease that spread across asia and europe killing millions of people
- bubonic plague
- a conflict in which england and france battled on french soil on and off
- hundred years war
- a teenange french peasant girl who led the french army into battle
- joan of arc