Vocabulary Flashcards

chapter 13 vocabulary.

248384186	middle ages	the medieval period	0
248384187	franks	germanic people who settled in the rome province of gaul	1
248384188	monastery	a religeous community of men who have given up their posesions to devote themselves to a life of prayer and worship	2
248384189	secular	concern with worldly rather than spiritual matters	3
248384190	carolingian dynasty	a dynasty of frankish rulers lasting from 651 to 987 ad	4
248384191	charlemagne	charles the great	5
248384192	lord	land owner	6
248384193	fief	granted land to land owners	7
248384194	vassal	person recieving a fief	8
248384195	knight	mounted horsemen who pleged to defend their lords' lands in exchange for fiefs	9
248384196	serf	people who could not lawfelly leave the place where they were born	10
248384197	manor	the lords estate	11
248384198	tithe	church tax	12
248384199	chivalry	a complex set of ideas	13
248384200	tournament	mock battles	14
248384201	troubadour	traveling poet-musicians at the castles and courts of europe	15
248384202	clergy	including bishops and priests fell under popes athority	16
248384203	sacrament	important religious ceremonies	17
248384204	canon law	church law	18
248384205	Holy Roman Empire	first known as the roman empire of the german nation	19
248384206	lay investiture	a ceremony in which kings and nobles appointed church officials	20