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

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.

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

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

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 medieval European system of self-sustaining agricultural estates.

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

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 act of anointing with oil as a rite of consecration.

All territories within France controlled directly by the king.

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

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