Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600–1450 CE
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A term initiated by William I to designate feudal vassals who held lands in return for service and loyalty to the king.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

A medieval method of determining theological and philosophical truth by using Aristotelian logic.

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