History 4+5
Terms
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- Jew
- a descendant of the ancient Hebrews, the founders of the religion of Judaism: also, any person whose religion is Judaism
- commerce
- the buying and selling of goods
- heretic
- a person who holds beliefs that are contrary to the teachings of a church or other group ( Joan of Arc was accused of being one)
- journeyman (it comes from the French word journee, for day)
- a person who has learned a particular trade or craft but has not become an employer
- miracle play
- a type of religious drama in the Middle Ages based on stories about saints
- Thomas Beckett
- the arch bishop of Canterbury who was killed in 1170
- Joan of Arc
- a french, 17-year-old peasant girl who urged France to fight
- domain
- the land controlled by a ruler or lord
- common law
- a body or rulings made by judges that become part of a nation's legal system
- Constitutions of Clarendon
- a document that King Henry issued that spelled out the king's traditional rights
- apprentice
- a person who works for an expert in a trade or craft in return for training
- leprosy
- a skin and nerve disease that causes open sores on the body and can lead to serious complications and death
- Black Death
- otherwise known as the Bubonic Plague
- 100 years war
- the series of wars fought over the lands in French control this lasted from 1337 to 1453
- King John
- Henry's younger son, he taxed his barons heavily, he sealed the Magna Carta, became King in 1199
- mystery play
- a type of religious drama in the MIddle Ages based on stories from the Bible
- minstrel
- a singer or musician who sang or recited poems to music played on a harp or other instrument
- bloodletting
- the process of applying leeches or opening a vein, this technique was believed to remove contaminated blood and restore balance to the body and spirit, hoping to restore health
- solar
- a space where the family gathered to eat and talk
- charter
- a written grant of rights and privileges by a ruler or government to a community, class of people, or organization
- guild
- an organization of people in the same craft or trade
- Magna Carta
- means Great Charter, an agreement between the barons and the kings, signed/sealed June 1215
- truce
- an agreed upon halt in fighting
- crossbow
- a medieval weapoon made up of a bow that was fixed across a wooden stock (which had a groove to direct the arrow's flight) and operated by a trigger
- Henry the second
- He made legal reform a central concern of his reign, he ruled from 1154 to 1189
- habebeas corpus
- the principle that accused persons cannot be held in jail without the consent of a court
- Model Paliament
- a governing body that included commoners and lower ranking clergy as well as church officials and nobles
- bubonic plague
- a deadly contagious disease caused by bacteria and spread by fleas
- commoner
- a person who is not of noble rank
- longbow
- a large bow used for firing feathered arrows