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Chapter 14
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Crusades | a series of wars carried out by European Christians to gain control of the Holy Land from their Muslim rulers |
| Holy Land | region that included Jerusalem and the area around it, considered holy by Jews, Christians, and Muslims |
| Pope Urban II | Roman catholic pope from 1088 to 1099; he called on Christians to launch the First Crusade. |
| Saladin | Muslim sultan and hero; he campaigned to drive the Christians from the Holy Land. He stopped an army of crusaders under Richard the Lion-Hearted of England |
| Richard the Lion-Hearted | King of England from 1189 to 1199; he fought in the Holy Land against Saladin during the Third Crusade |
| Hanseatic League | an organization of north-German cities and towns that organized and controlled trade throughout northern Europe from 1200s through the 1400s |
| Credit | an arrangement by which a purchaser borrows money from a bank or other lender and agrees to pay it back over time |
| Guilds | associations of people who worked at the same craft or trade during the middle ages |
| Apprentice | a person who learns a skill under a master of the trade |
| Journeyman | a skilled worker who was paid wages by the master of a guild |
| Gothic | a style of church architecture developed during the 1100s characterized by tall spires and flying buttresses |
| Flying Buttress | and arched stone support on the outside of buildings, which allows builders to construct higher walls |
| Illumination | the process of decorating a written manuscript with pictures or designs |
| Hildegard of Bingen | Medieval nun and author; she wrote dozens of poems and music to accompany them |
| Troubadours | traveling singers who entertained people during the Middle Ages |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | English poet |
| Dante Alighieri | Italian poet and humanist |
| Thomas Aquinas | Italian philosopher and theologian |
| Scholasticism | In the middle ages, the theological and philosophical school of thought that attempted to reconcile faith and reason |
| Heresy | an opinion that goes against the teachings of a church |
| Inquisitions | institution of the Roman Catholic Church that sought to eliminate heresy |
| Friars | members of certain Roman Catholic religious orders |
| Hundred Years´ War | war fought between France and England for control of the French throne |
| Joan of Arc | French solider and national heroine |
| Wars of the Roses | civil war for the English crown between the York (white rose) and Lancaster (red rose) families |
| Henry VII | King of England; he defeated Richard III for the throne |
| Black Death | a terrible outbreak of bubonic plague that swept through Europe |
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