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Medieval vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Tradition | Belief custom or old way of doing something. |
Issue | To put something forth officially. |
Transform | To change something completely. |
Document | Piece of appear that has official information on it. |
Establish | To set up or start something. |
Expel | To force something to leave a place. |
Impose | To introduce something and force people to accept it. |
Economy | System by which country's money and goods are produced and used. |
Clergy | The Clergyis the group of people who give their lives to serve the church as priests monks and higher church officials. |
Pope Leo III | In 799 Charlemagne received an important visitor Pope Leo III. |
Coronation | Charlemagne seemed surprised by his Coronation or crowing ceremony. |
Pope Gregory VII | In 1073 a monk named Hildebrand became Pope Gregory VII. |
secular | He issued a list of rules declaring his supreme authority over both church and secular or nonchurch leaders |
Henry IV | It is easy to imagine how Henry IV the Holy Roman Emperor at the time reacted to Gregory new rules. |
excommunicate | To excommunicate means to exclude a person from a church or a religion community. |
William the Conqueror | In late September 1066 William of Normandy who became know as William the Conqueror invaded south England. |
King John | King John claimed to ruled Normandy in France. |
common law | Common law is a body of law that has developed from custom and from judges decisions rather than laws passed by a law making assembly |
habeas corpus | habeas corpus refers to a court order to bring an arrested person before a judge or court. |
Writ | A jailer who received a writ or court order. |
Parliament | A Parliament is an assembly of representative who makes laws. |
Pilgrim | A Pilgrim is a religious person who travels to a holy place of shrine. |
Crusade | A Crusade or Christian religious war. |
Heresy | A Heresy is a belief that is rejected by official church doctrine. |
Inquisition | The Inquisition was a church court designed to investigate and judge heretics. |
Reconquista | The movement to drive the muslims from Spain was called the Reconquista or reconquest. |
Isabella | Ferdinand of Aragon married Isabella of Castile Leon. |
Ferdinand | Ferdinand of Aragon married Isabella of Castile Leon. |