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Calcutt-Middle Ages
Calcutt-Middle Ages Part 2
Term | Definition |
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chivalry | a code of honorable behavior for knights |
clergy | church officials |
friar | a member of a religious order who lived and worked among the public |
heresy | religious ideas that oppose accepted church teachings |
heretic | a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his or her church |
excommunicate | to cast out from the church |
Crusades | a long series of wars between Christians and Muslims in Southwest Asia for control of the Holy Land from 1096-1291 |
plague | an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence |
Black Death | a deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347-1351 |