Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600–1450 CE
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Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox.

The native, common spoken language of a particular region.

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

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

The law of the church.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.

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