world history chapter.13
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Middle ages | medieval period. time between 500-1500 ad. |
| franks | germanic people who settled in gaul |
| monastery | community of monks |
| secular | means political or wordly power |
| convent | religious order for females (nuns) |
| lord | landowner |
| fief | land granted by a lord |
| vassal | person recieving a fief |
| knight | mounted horseman |
| serf | people who could not lawfully leave the place they were born |
| manor | lords estate |
| tithe | church tax |
| chivalry | complex set of ideals |
| tournament | mock battles |
| troubadour | traveling poet-musicians |
| clergy | bishops and priests |
| canon law | church law |
| holy roman empire | empire of the german nation |
| lay investiture | ceremony in which kings and nobles appointed church officials |
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