| 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) |