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Medieval words
Medieval words by Daniel mejia
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Traditional | Belief ,custom , or old way of doing something |
| Issue | To put something forth officially |
| Transform | To change something completely |
| Document | Piece of paper that has official information on it |
| Establish | To set up or start something |
| Expel | To force someone to leave a place |
| Impose | To introduce something and force people to accept it |
| Economy | System by which a country's money and goods are produced and used |
| Clergy | Group of peopl who give their lives to serve the church as priests, monks, and higher church officials |
| Pope Leo III | Leo had left Rome after rivals had planned to bling him and remove him from office |
| Coronation | Crowning ceremony |
| Pope Gregory VII | He had strong ideas about the powers of the pope and issued a list of rules declaring his supreme authority |
| Secular | Non church |
| Henry IV | Reacted to Gregory's new rules by giving a clash of the two men |
| Excommunicate | Means to exclude a person from a church or religious community. |
| William the Conqueror | Invaded southern England and waited for England's army to confront them |
| King John | He claimed to rule Normandy in France |
| common law | body of law that has developed from custom and from judges decisions rather than laws passed by a law-making assembly |
| Habeas corpus | refers to a court order to bring an arrested person before a judge or court |
| writ | court order |
| Parliament | An assembly of representatives who make laws. |
| Pilgrim | Religious person who travels to a holy place to shrine |
| Crusade | Christian religious war |
| Heresy | A belief that is rejected by official church doctrine |
| Inquisition | Was a church court designed to investigate and judge heretics. |
| Reconquista | The movement to drive the Muslims from Spain |
| Isabella | Her royal marriage took place in 1469 |
| Ferdinand | Married Isabella of Castile-Leon |