Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600–1450 CE
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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 law of the church.

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

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

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

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

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

All territories within France controlled directly by the king.

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

The native, common spoken language of a particular region.

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

The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.

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