| Question |
Answer |
| Society |
A community of people living in a particular country or region and having shared customs, laws, and organizations. |
| West |
Europe and its culture seen in contrast to other civilizations. |
| Tribal Feudalism |
other note book |
| Witan |
Council of the Anglo-Saxon kings in medieval England.
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| Fall of Rome |
self explanatory |
| Feudal contract |
A feudal contract between a lord and a vassal that stated that the lord would provide protection, fief(income), sovereignty, and aid. In return the Vassals gave military service, loyalty, hospitality, and time out at court. |
| Carolingian Renaissance |
King Karl's rebirth of the arts. |
| Vassi dominici |
Vassals |
| Missi dominici |
Traveling inspecting vassals. |
| Feudalism |
A political and economic system of Europe, based on the holding of all land in fief or fee and the resulting relation of lord to vassal and characterized by homage, legal and military service of tenants, and forfeiture. |
| Fief |
Land exchange in a feudal contract; Income. |
| Manorialism |
Political, economic, and social system by which the peasants of medieval Europe were tied to their land and their lord through serfdom. |
| Peasant obligations |
Laws are rules in other notebook |
| Two class society |
The Rich and the Poor? |
| Three estates |
Typical social organization of Middle Ages; included military nobility, clergy, and ordinary people. In other words, those who fight, those who work and those who pray. |
| Vicious circle of peasants |
Over populations, under productivity |
| Serf |
A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord |
| Social economic history |
? |
| Regular clergy |
members of religious orders, who live according to a rule. |
| Secular clergy |
Clergy who, unlike regular clergy, do not live by a rule, subject to the authority of the bishop |
| St.Benedict |
was the founder of Christian monastic communities and a rule giver for monks living in community. |
| Gregory the great |
? wrote, built church, gave to the poor, cared about his people. |
| sacraments |
Seven instruments to receive grace. |
| Church hierarchy |
a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system with in the church. |
| Hrotsvit of Gandershiem |
Famous German, female writer. |
| early christian appeal |
Martyrdom, Equality, monotheism, Jesus, heaven. |
| Beowulf |
the legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem |
| Charlemagne |
Charlemagne was the Frankish king who conquered most of Europe and was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III. |
| Raoul of Cambrai |
French epic poem concerning Raul's battles to take possession of his fief and of the repercussions from these battles. |
| Gregory of tours
|
A historian and bishop of tours. |
| Koran |
The sacred text of Islam, considered by Muslims to contain the revelations of God to Muhammad |
| Chivalry |
The qualities idealized by knighthood, such as bravery, courtesy, honor, and gallantry toward women. |
| page-squire-knight |
A knight's attendant as the first stage of training for chivalric knighthood----A young nobleman attendant upon a knight and ranked next below a knight in feudal hierarchy----A medieval tenant giving military service as a mounted manatarms |
| Lord-vassal |
A man of high rank in a feudal society or in one that retains feudal forms and institutions----A person who held land from a feudal lord and received protection in return for homage and allegiance. |
| Peasant Bodo |
a peasant who represented the awful parts of manorialism. |
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