Chapter 11 Matching Exercise

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

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

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

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

The law of the church.

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

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

All territories within France controlled directly by 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.

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

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.

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