Global I-CCSD Chapter 8
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- vassal
- in medieval Europe, a lord who has granted land in exchange for service and loyalty to a greater lord
- fief
- in the Middle Ages, an estate granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for service and loyalty
- knight
- noble in Europe who served as a mounted warrior for a lord in the Middle Ages
- chivalry
- code of conduct for knights during the Middle Ages
- troubadour
- wandering poet in Europe in the Middle Ages
- manor
- during the Middle Ages in Europe, a lord's estate, which included one or more villages and the surrounding lands
- serf
- in medieval Europe, peasant bound to the lord's land
- secular
- having to do with worldly, rather than religious, matters
- sacrament
- sacred ritual of the Roman Catholic Church
- canon law
- body of laws of a churh
- excommunication
- exclusion from the Roman Catholic Church as a penalty for refusing to obey Church laws
- interdict
- in the Roman Catholic Church, excommunication of the entire region, town, or kingdom
- tithe
- payment to a church equal to one tenth of a person's income
- anti-Semitism
- prejudice against Jews
- charter
- in the Middle Ages, a written document that set out the rights and privileges of a town