Chapter 12 Key Terms D.C.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Medevial | Refering to the middle ages; old fashioned |
| Revival | a renewed interest in part of the past |
| Manor | A large estate, including farmland and villages, held by a lord |
| Vassal | person granted land from a lord in return for services |
| liege lord | the lord who is owed the most loyalty to by a vassal |
| Chivalry | a code that knights adopted in the late Middle Ages; requiring them to be brave, loyal and true to their word; they had to fight fairly in battle |
| Serf | peasants on a manor; they were bound to the land; they were not slaves who could be bought and sold—still they were not free |
| Tithe | an offering of a tenth part of some personal income |
| Monastery | a community of men who have taken religious vows |
| Convent | a religious community in which women, or nuns live and pray |
| Gothic style | type of European architecture that developed in the Middle Ages, characterized by flying buttresses, ribbed vaulting, thin walls, and high roofs |
| anti-Semitism | prejudice toward Jewish people |
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