Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox.
A term initiated by William I to designate feudal vassals who held lands in return for service and loyalty to the king.
The medieval European system of self-sustaining agricultural estates.
A written order issued by a court, commanding the party to whom it is addressed to perform or cease performing a specified act.
The urban-based middle class between the wealthy aristocracy and the working class.
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 law of the church.
The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.
The act of anointing with oil as a rite of consecration.
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 trade network of allied ports along the North Sea and Baltic coasts, founded in 1256.
The native, common spoken language of a particular region.
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