Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600–1450 CE
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The medieval European system of self-sustaining agricultural estates.

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

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

The law of the church.

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.

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

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

All territories within France controlled directly by the king.

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 act of anointing with oil as a rite of consecration.

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

Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox.

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