Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600–1450 CE
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Associations of artisans and merchants intended to protect and promote affairs of common interest.

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

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

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

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

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

The native, common spoken language of a particular region.

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 act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.

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

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.

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

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