Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600–1450 CE
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The period 1378-1417, marked by divided papal allegiances in Latin Christendom.

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.

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

The native, common spoken language of a particular region.

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

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

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

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

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

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