Chapter 11 Matching Exercise

Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600–1450 CE
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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 native, common spoken language of a particular region.

A trade network of allied ports along the North Sea and Baltic coasts, founded in 1256.

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 medieval European system of self-sustaining agricultural estates.

The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.

The law of the church.

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.

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

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

Associations of artisans and merchants intended to protect and promote affairs of common interest.

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