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Early Middle Ages

Ch 13 Early Middle Ages Key Terms

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Period of European history from 500 to 1500 Middle Ages
Germanic people who held power in the Roman province called Gaul Franks
Religious community of people devoting their lives to worship and prayer monastery
Concerned with worldly, not religious, things secular
Family of Frankish rulers, lasting from 751 to 987 Carolingian Dynasty
Powerful Frankish ruler who built a huge empire Charlemagne
Landowner Lord
Land granted by a lord to a vassal fief
Person receiving a fief from a lord vassal
Warrior on horseback who promised to defend his lord’s land in exchange for a fief knight
Peasant who could not lawfully leave the place where he or she was born serf
Lord’s estate manor
Church tax; usually one-tenth of a peasant family’s income tithe
Code of behavior for knights, stressing ideals such as courage, loyalty, and devotion chivalry
Staged battles for entertaining audiences and training knights tournaments
Poet-musicians at the castles and courts of Europe troubadours
Religious officials clergy
Important religious ceremony sacrament
Law of the church canon law
Kingdom originally made up of what is now Germany and Italy Holy Roman Empire
Appointment of religious officials by kings or nobles lay investiture
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