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| 7889222548 | Aristocracy | a class of hereditary nobility in medieval Europe; a warrior class who shared a distinctive lifestyle based on the institution of knighthood, although there were social divisions within the group based on extremes of wealth | 0 | |
| 7889239242 | Demesne | the part of a manor retained under the direct control of the lord and worked by the serfs as part of their labor services | 1 | |
| 7889248847 | Fief | a landed estate granted to a vassal in exchange for military services | 2 | |
| 7889253667 | Manor | an agricultural estate operated by a lord and worked by peasants who performed labor services and paid various rents and fees to the lord in exchange for protection and sustenance | 3 | |
| 7889271724 | Missi dominici | officials sent by some Frankish kings and emperors to supervise provincial administration. | 4 | |
| 7889285724 | Monogamy | the practice of being married to one person at a time | 5 | |
| 7889290217 | Primogeniture | an inheritance practice in which the eldest son receives all or the largest share of the parents' estate | 6 | |
| 7889331425 | Scriptoria | writing rooms for the copying of manuscripts in medieval monasteries | 7 | |
| 7889337690 | Serf | a peasant who is bound to the land and obliged to provide labor services and pay various rents and fees to the lord; considered unfree but not a slave because serfs could not be bought and sold | 8 | |
| 7889351719 | Subinfeudation | the practice whereby a lord's greatest vassals subdivided their fiefs and had vassals of their own, which in turn subdivided their fiefs, and so on down to simple knights, whose fiefs were too small to subdivide | 9 | |
| 7889364997 | Tithe | a portion of one's harvest or income, paid by medieval peasants to the village church | 10 | |
| 7889381799 | Vassalage | the granting of a fief in exchange for providing military services to the lord and fulfilling certain other obligations such as appearing at the lord's court when summoned and making a payment on the knighting of the lord's eldest son | 11 |
