Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600–1450 CE
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The act of anointing with oil as a rite of consecration.

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

The law of the church.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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