Chapter 11 Matching Exercise

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

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.

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

The medieval European system of self-sustaining agricultural estates.

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

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

The native, common spoken language of a particular region.

The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.

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

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