Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600–1450 CE
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The act of anointing with oil as a rite of consecration.

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.

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

The period 1378-1417, marked by divided papal allegiances in Latin Christendom.

A written order issued by a court, commanding the party to whom it is addressed to perform or cease performing a specified act.

The medieval European system of self-sustaining agricultural estates.

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

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.

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

The native, common spoken language of a particular region.

All territories within France controlled directly by the king.

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

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