Chapter 11 Matching Exercise

Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600–1450 CE
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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 written order issued by a court, commanding the party to whom it is addressed to perform or cease performing a specified act.

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

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

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

The medieval European system of self-sustaining agricultural estates.

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

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.

The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.

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

The law of the church.

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

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