Vocabulary Flashcards

248382528	Middle Ages	The midieval period	0
248382529	Franks	Germanic people who settled in the Roman province of Gaul	1
248382530	monastery	a religious community of men called monks who have give up their possessions to devote themselves to a life of prayer and worship	2
248382531	secular	concerned with worldly rather than spirtual matters	3
248382532	Carolingian Dynasty	a dynasty of frankish rulers, lasting from 751 to 987	4
248382533	Charlemange	or charles the great ruled the kingdom	5
248382534	lord	or landowner	6
248382535	fief	land	7
248382536	vassal	person who was getting a fief	8
248382537	knight	were mounted horsemen who pledge to defend their lords'	9
248382538	serf	were people who could not lawfully leave the place where they where born	10
248382539	manor	the lords estate	11
248382540	tithe	church tax	12
248382541	chivarly	a complex set of ideas	13
248382542	tournament	mock battles	14
248382543	troubadour	traveling poet musicians at the castles and courts of Europe	15
248382544	clergy	included bishops and priest fell under popes authority	16
248382545	sacrament	important religious ceremonies	17
248382546	canon law	or Church law	18
248382547	Holy Roman empire	the roman empire or german nation	19
248382548	lay investiture	a ceremony in which kings and nobles appointed chirch officials	20