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Chapter 8
Vocabs
Term | Definition |
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Exchequer | Treasury, to collect taxes. |
Common Law | A legal system based on custom and court rulings |
Jury | group of men sworn to speak the truth. |
Lay investiture | The emperor or another lay person. |
Anunul | Invalidate, his marriage |
Crusade | Holy war, against the Albigensian |
Schism | Split, between the Roman and Byzantine |
Levy | Collect, taxes in order to support the Crusades |
Religious toleration | Policy of allowing people to worship as they chose. |
Scholasticism | Studied the works of the muslim philosopher |
Vernacular | every day languages of ordinary people. |
Epics | Long narrative poems |
Flying buttresses | stone supports that stood outside the church |
Illumination | The artistic decoration of books |
Epidemic | Outbreak of rapid- spreading diseases. |
Inflation | Rising prices |
Long bow | A bow wield by archers |