A | B |
to exclude a person from a church | excommunicate |
non-church, non-religious | secular |
the people who run the Church: the pope, bishops, priests | clergy |
a law-making assembly | parliament |
law that has been developed from custom and judges decisions | common law |
a court order to bring an arrested person before a judge | habeus corpus |
a belief that is rejected by official Church teachings | heresy |
a court order | writ |
unplanted | fallow |
changing the use of fields over time | crop rotation |
planting two of three fields and leaving the third fallow | three-field system |
a group of craftsmen who have joined together for their common good | guild |
a major church headed by a bishop | cathedral |
these high level schools evolved from cathedral schools | universities |
a serious shortage of food | famine |
a widespread outbreak of disease | epidemic |
people who are blamed for something they did not do | scapegoats |
a deadly infection that struck medieval Europe | bubonic plague (Black Death) |