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feudal contract
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exchange of pledges between lords and vassals
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women in the guilds
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often engaged in the same trade as her father or husband and might inherit his workshop if he died. b/c she knew the craft well she could keep the shop running and become a guild master herself. young girls became apprentices for crafts
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salvation
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Christian's belief that if they participated in the sacraments, they would have an everlasting life with god.
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Benedictine Rule
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rules drawn up by Benedict, a monk, regulating monastic life. It emphisizes obiedience, poverty, and chastity and devides the day into periods of worship, work, and study
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Truce of God
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temporary periods of peace (Fri-Sun and holidays) from the feudal warefare
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missi dominici
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officials sent by Charlemange to keep control of provincial rulers. check roads, listen to greivances, and see that justice was done
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vassal
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in medieval europe, a lord who was granted land in exchange for service and loyalty to a greater lord.
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serfs
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in medieval europe, a peasant bound to the lords land
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papal supremacy
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the claim of medeival popes that they had authority over all secular rulers
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excommunication
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exclusion from the Roman catholic church as a penalty for refusing to obey church law
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monks/ nuns
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took three vows (benedictine rule). look after poor and sick. set up schools. some became missionaries. educated ones wrote and taught latin
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friar
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a medieval monk who traveled from place to place preaching to the poor
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new middle class
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a group of ppl, including merchants, traders, and artistans, whose rank was between nobles and peasants
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Henry II
Thomas Becket |
developed the foundations of early common law and jury.
He claimed the right to try clergy in royal courts and Becket feircely opposed him. |
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common law
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a legal sys based on customs and court rulings (applied to all of england)
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French Capetian Kings
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Huge Capet was elected b/c it was thought he didnt pose a threat. his heirs slowly made the throne hereditary (300 years = more stability). won support of the church. effective bureaucracy
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concordat of worms
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declared that the church had the sole authority to elect and invest bishops with spiritual authority. the emperor still invested them with feifs
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council of clermont
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Urban incited bishops and nobels to action, starting the crusades
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Pope urabn II
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the byzantine emperor Alexius I asked him for christian knights to help fight the muslim turks in the crusades
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Crusades: goals and results
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Goal: to regain the Holy Land from the muslim turks in byzantine empire
results: trade increased in europe. money economy increased -> undermined sefdom. increased power of monarchs. short increase of papal power. deepended the split between E europe and byzantine empire. more exploration |
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Reconquista
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the christians campeign to drive the muslims from the iberian penninsula
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Frederick II
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Barbarossa's grandson. also tried but failed to capture the cities of N italy
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hundred years' war
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series of conflicts between Europe and France for french lands and english channel that started when Edward III of england claimed the french crown. french won. effects- castles and knights would no longer suffice. higher pop and trade
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effects of the balck death
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economy plunged- inflation. andgry peasant revolts. church power was questioned and corrupt
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