A written order issued by a court, commanding the party to whom it is addressed to perform or cease performing a specified act.
The period 1378-1417, marked by divided papal allegiances in Latin Christendom.
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 trade network of allied ports along the North Sea and Baltic coasts, founded in 1256.
The French representative assembly, composed of the three social "estates" in France, first convened by Philip IV.
An outward and physical sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
The medieval European system of self-sustaining agricultural estates.
Those countries professing Christian beliefs under the primacy of the pope.
The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.
The law of the church.
A medieval method of determining theological and philosophical truth by using Aristotelian logic.
All territories within France controlled directly by the king.
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