| A | B |
|---|
| midieval | the middle ages |
| trial by ordeal | used by germanic tribes, would throw people into the river to see if they were guilty or not |
| clergy | the different levels of officials that made up the church |
| orders | religious communities of monks or nuns |
| illuminated manuscripts | hand produced books about the bible so that the illiterate public could understand |
| sacraments | administered by preists and popes, in catholosism you need them to get into heaven |
| papacy | the office of the pope |
| feif | land granted by a lord and giving to another less rich noble |
| vassal | the person who was given the land to work on |
| knight | a mounted warrior |
| chivalry | feudal nobility code of behavior, be nice to the ladies and what not |
| serfs | people that did not have the freedom to leave the land where they were born, they had to farm a lot |
| maor | the lord's estate |
| manorial system | the basic economic system arangment for the middle ages. |
| self-sufficient | able to produce almost everything needed |
| fallow | an unplanted feild, one of these was made each year so they would have richer farmer land next year |
| moneychangers | people that exchanged coins from different regions, like a curancy place |
| guilds | groups of craftsmen sharing the same trait |
| apprentice | a trainee, someone learning the skillz n00b |
| jouryneymen | a step up from n00b, they were working to become a master |
| charter | a document that a lord gave to the people so that they could run their own town |
| battle hastings | the battle where the normans beat the saxons in 1106 |
| barons | feudal lords |
| common law | law made up by a king or a town so that there was only one law |
| grand jury | a group of people that would determan if there was a case or not |
| trial jury | determained if a person was guilty or not |
| magna carta | great charter, it was giving by the king where the king agreed to recognize the barons' rights |
| parliment | on offical group of representives, 2 houses: common and lords |
| limited monarch | a governmen in whihc the monarchs' power has limits |
| absolute | a government where the monarch as absolute and total power |
| duchies | lands rulled by the dukes in germany |
| cardinals | a group of leading clergy men that elect the pope |
| depose | to remove some on in power from the throne |
| excommunicate | to expel one from the church, cant get into heven, do not pass go, go directly to satan's easy bake |
| heresy | the holding of beliefts that the church considered wrong |
| inquisition | a church court that serrched for suspected heretics |
| friars | traveling monks, doing good, preaching |
| laymen | people outside the clergy |
| constantinopal song | made big by they might be giants |
| break down of rome | caused all of the bad happenings, germanic trives took power and the church was the only source of organsied power left |
| post roman disunity | roman law and order was gone, awful ecomic life, towns and cities gone, strong government disapperars, level of learning declinges, beningings of feudalism, not organised |
