| A | B |
|---|
| wine | most common drink for upper class |
| holy days | serfs got about 50 of these where they didn't have to work |
| peasant bread | dark, heavy, made of different grains |
| cities | narrow, tight, dirty |
| lay investiture | when people who are not members of the clergy give a clergyman the symbols of his church office |
| Investiture Controversy | when the German king and pope argued over who had the authority to bestow earthly and spiritual symbols of office |
| Interdict | when the pope declares that a region's clergy cannot give the sacraments to their people |
| Cistercian monks | formed their own order because they thought the Benedictine monks were not strict enough |
| Inquisition | the Church's effort to stop people from spreading false teachings |
| lecture | how university classes were taught because books were expensive |
| scholasticism | main goal was to reconcile faith and reason |
| troubadour poetry | spoke of the love knights had for a special lady of the court |
| heroic epic poetry | were often about battles and ladies were rarely mentioned |
| Romanesque Cathedrals | resembled fortresses because their arched ceilings required heavy, thick walls |
| Bubonic Plague | its outbreak can be traced back to fleas on rats on Italian merchant ships |
| town wells | people blaming Jews for the Black Death claimed they poisoned these |
| Louis XI | created a strong monarchy in France by heavily taxing the nobles |
| Henry VII | ended the civil war in England and created the Tudor Dynasty |
| Jews and Muslims | these were the people King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella had to rid Spain of in order to make it totally Catholic |
| Innocent III | pope who frequently used his interdict power |
| nuns | what aristocratic women who could not (or did not want to) find husbands became |
| Dominicans | monastic order with a large role in the Inquisition |
| flying buttress | innovation that made Gothic cathedrals possible |
| Great Schism | started because the French king wanted to tax the clergy |
| Hundred Years War | started when the king of France tried to take Gascony from the king of England |
| serf | peasant who was bound to the land |
| lord | gave a serf land and protection |
| three | how many days a serf worked for himself and the lord (same amount) |
| crops | serfs often paid their rent by giving a portion of these |
| ale | most common drink for peasants |
