Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600–1450 CE
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Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox.

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

The law of the church.

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 act of anointing with oil as a rite of consecration.

The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.

The native, common spoken language of a particular region.

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

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

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

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

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