Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600–1450 CE
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A written order issued by a court, commanding the party to whom it is addressed to perform or cease performing a specified act.

The urban-based middle class between the wealthy aristocracy and the working class.

The law of the church.

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.

A term initiated by William I to designate feudal vassals who held lands in return for service and loyalty to the king.

The French representative assembly, composed of the three social "estates" in France, first convened by Philip IV.

Those countries professing Christian beliefs under the primacy of the pope.

The act of anointing with oil as a rite of consecration.

Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox.

An outward and physical sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

The medieval European system of self-sustaining agricultural estates.

All territories within France controlled directly by the king.

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