Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600–1450 CE
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The urban-based middle class between the wealthy aristocracy and the working class.

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

The law of the church.

The native, common spoken language of a particular region.

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

All territories within France controlled directly by the king.

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

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

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

The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.

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

A written order issued by a court, commanding the party to whom it is addressed to perform or cease performing a specified act.

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