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Feudal Society
Ch. 24 Feudal Society
Term | Definition |
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feudalism | medieval political system based on the relation of lords to vassals |
fief | estates |
clergy | religious leaders |
Act of Homage | ceremony in which a vassal promises loyalty to a lord |
knight | warrior on horseback |
castles | large,fortified houses |
keep | strongest part of a castle |
ladies | noblewoman |
Code of Chivalry | rules knights had to live by |
page | person who helped knights care for their horses and armor |
squire | young noble under the care and training of a knight |
dubbing | ceremony in which a squire is made a knight |
joust | contest on horseback between 2 knights |
tournament | contest to test the skill of knights |
manors | medieval estates |
seneschal | medieval official who looked after the noble's fiefs |
bailiff | medieval official who saw that peasants did their work |
freemen | peasants who paid the lord for the right to farm their own land |