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Medieval words
Medieval words by Daniel mejia
Term | Definition |
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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 |