Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600–1450 CE
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The French representative assembly, composed of the three social "estates" in France, first convened by Philip IV.

Associations of artisans and merchants intended to protect and promote affairs of common interest.

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

The native, common spoken language of a particular region.

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

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

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

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

The law of the church.

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

The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.

The medieval European system of self-sustaining agricultural estates.

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