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Flashcards by Mikaela Jane, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Mikaela Jane
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| Question | Answer |
| Vassal | A knight who has sworn loyalty to a particular lord |
| Fief | A portion of land, given by the lord to a vassal in exchange for the oath of loyalty |
| Feudalism | A European political system that defines the military obligations and relations between a lord and his vassals |
| Manorialism | An economic system that governed rural life in medieval Europe |
| Serf | A peasant who lost his or her freedom and became permanently bound to the land |
| Heresy | An opinion, belief, or action counter to doctrines that church leaders defined as correct |
| Reconquista | Word to describe the long christian crusade to wrest Spain back from the Muslims |
| Crusades | Recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims |
| Chivalry | A code of conduct that was supposed to govern the behavior of a knight |
| Craft guilds | Associations of artisans organized to regulate the quality, quality, and price of the goods produced as well as the number of affiliated apprentices and journeymen |
| Commercial Revolution | The transformation of the economic structure of Europe to a more complex mercantile society |
| Scholastics | Medieval professors who developed a method of thinking, reasoning, and writing in which questions were raised and authorities cited on both sides of a question |
| Vernacular literature | Literature written in the everyday language of a region rather than Latin |
| Gothic | The term for the architectural and artistic style that prevailed in Europe |
| Black Death | The Plague that first struck Europe in 1347, killing perhaps one-third of the population |
| Renaissance | "rebirth", used to describe a cultural movement that began in fourteenth-century Italy |
| Patronage | Financial support of writers and artists by cities, groups, and individuals, often to produce specific works or works in specific styles |
| Humanism | study of Latin and Greek literature with the goal of understand human nature |
| Christian humanists | Humanists from northern Europe who thought that the best elements of classical and Christian cultures should be combined and saw humanist learning as a way to bring about reform of the church and deepen people's spiritual lives |
| Debate about women | A discussion, that attempted to answer fundamental questions about gender and to define the role of women in society |
| Protestant Reformation | A religious reform movement that split the Western Christian Church |
| Indulgence | A papal statement granting remission of a priest-imposed penalty for sin |
| Diet of Worms | A assembly of representatives from the territories of the Holy Roman Empire convened by Charles V in the German city of Worms in 1521 |
| Protestant | Applied to all non-catholic western european Christians |
| Predestination | By god's decree, some person are guided to salvation and others to damnation |
| Jesuits | members of the Society of Jesus, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through humanistic schools and missionary activity |
| Huguenots | french Calvinists |
| Politiques | Catholic and Protestant moderates who sought to end the religious violence in France by restoring a strong monarchy and granting official recognition to the HUGUENOTS |
| Witch-Hunts | Campaign against witchcraft in early modern Europe and European colonies in which hundreds of thousands of people, mostly women, were trialed, and many of them executed |
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