Ch.9 Section 1 Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Clovis | strong military leader who, around 500, became the first Germanic ruler to convert to Christianity 510- established a powerful new Frankish kingdom |
| wergild | fine paid by a wrongdoer to the family of the person he or she had injured or killed |
| ordeal | means of determining guilt; involved a physical trial of some sort |
| bishopric | diocese |
| pope | viewed as Peter's successor; means "father" of the Catholic Church |
| Gregory I | "Gregory the Great"; strong pope; strengthened power of the papacy(office of the pope) and the Church |
| monk | man who separates himself from ordinary society to dedicate himself to God |
| monasticism | practice of living the life of a monk; at first, based on hermit living spiritual life |
| Saint Benedict | wrote a set of rules to guide a community of monks he founded |
| missionaries | (English and Irish monks) people sent out to carry a religious message; undertook conversion of non-Christian peoples |
| nuns | women, like monks, who began to withdraw from the world to dedicate themselves to God |
| abbesses | headed the convents the nuns lived in |
| Pe'pin | a mayor of the palace who assumed the Frankish kingship for himself and his family; son of Charles Martel |
| Charles Martel | leader who defeated the Muslims at the Battle of Tours |
| Charlemagne | "Charles the Great" son of Pe'pin; became king when his father died; determined and decisive man, highly intelligent and fierce warrior; unable to write |
| Carolingian Empire | Charlemagne's expanded Frankish kingdom; covered much of western and central Europe |
| counts | German nobles who acted as the king's chief local representatives |
| missi dominici | limited the counts' powers; messangers of the king--two men sent out to local districts to ensure that the counts carried out the king's wishes |
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