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 act of anointing with oil as a rite of consecration.

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

The native, common spoken language of a particular region.

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

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

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

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

All territories within France controlled directly by the king.

The medieval European system of self-sustaining agricultural estates.

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.

The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.

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