Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600–1450 CE
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The native, common spoken language of a particular region.

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

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 act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.

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

The medieval European system of self-sustaining agricultural estates.

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

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

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

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

A written order issued by a court, commanding the party to whom it is addressed to perform or cease performing a specified act.

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

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