| Question |
Answer |
| Christendom |
The cultural and political atmosphere that came into existence during the High Middle Ages in Europe when nearly everyone was Catholic and Catholicism influenced every aspect of people's lives. |
| Cruciform |
The shape or form of a cross. |
| Crusades |
Holy wars. To free the holy land from the Muslims. |
| Crux |
Means Cross. |
| Exocommunication |
a severe penalty imposed by the church for serious sins against the catholic religion, it brings exclusion from participation in the sacramental life of the church. |
| Feudalism |
A society strictly organized by the social class. |
| Friar |
Men who did their work out in the world rather than in a monastary. |
| Lay Investure |
Illict practice by secular leaders to invest or empower a church leader with authority. |
| Mendicant |
similar to friars who worked out in the world and beggers because they depended on others for their needs. |
| Pilgrimage |
a journey to a shrine or other holy place for spiritual and devotional reasons. |
| Simony |
the buying and selling of spiritual things, spiritual service, or church offices. |
| Transubstantiation |
Changing the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ. |
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