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Calcutt-Middle Ages
Calcutt-Middle Ages Part 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| chivalry | a code of honorable behavior for knights |
| clergy | church officials |
| friar | a member of a religious order who lived and worked among the public |
| heresy | religious ideas that oppose accepted church teachings |
| heretic | a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his or her church |
| excommunicate | to cast out from the church |
| Crusades | a long series of wars between Christians and Muslims in Southwest Asia for control of the Holy Land from 1096-1291 |
| plague | an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence |
| Black Death | a deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347-1351 |