Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600–1450 CE
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A written order issued by a court, commanding the party to whom it is addressed to perform or cease performing a specified act.

The law of the church.

The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.

Those countries professing Christian beliefs under the primacy of the pope.

The native, common spoken language of a particular region.

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

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

All territories within France controlled directly by the king.

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

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