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.

All territories within France controlled directly by the king.

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.

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

The medieval European system of self-sustaining agricultural estates.

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.

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

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

The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.

The law of the church.

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