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.

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

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

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

All territories within France controlled directly by the king.

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

The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.

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

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

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

The law of the church.

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