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

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

All territories within France controlled directly by the king.

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

The medieval European system of self-sustaining agricultural estates.

The act of anointing with oil as a rite of consecration.

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

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

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

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

The native, common spoken language of a particular region.

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

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