Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600–1450 CE
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The medieval European system of self-sustaining agricultural estates.

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

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.

The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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