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.

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

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

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

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

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

The native, common spoken language of a particular region.

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.

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

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

The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.

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