An outward and physical sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
The law of the church.
The urban-based middle class between the wealthy aristocracy and the working class.
Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox.
An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.
The medieval European system of self-sustaining agricultural estates.
Those countries professing Christian beliefs under the primacy of the pope.
Associations of artisans and merchants intended to protect and promote affairs of common interest.
A medieval method of determining theological and philosophical truth by using Aristotelian logic.
The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.
The native, common spoken language of a particular region.
The period 1378-1417, marked by divided papal allegiances in Latin Christendom.
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