A trade network of allied ports along the North Sea and Baltic coasts, founded in 1256.
An outward and physical sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
The law of the church.
Those countries professing Christian beliefs under the primacy of the pope.
An arrangement in which vassals were protected and maintained by their lords, usually through the granting of fiefs, and required to serve under them in war.
The French representative assembly, composed of the three social "estates" in France, first convened by Philip IV.
Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox.
The act of anointing with oil as a rite of consecration.
The native, common spoken language of a particular region.
The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.
A representative assembly in England that, by the fourteenth century, was composed of great lords (both lay and ecclesiastical) and representatives from two other groups: shire knights and town burgesses.
All territories within France controlled directly by the king.
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