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medieval
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of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Age
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feudalism
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the feudal system, or its principles and practices
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manor
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any similar territorial unit in medieval Europe, as a feudal estate.
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fief
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a fee or feud held of a feudal lord; a tenure of land subject to feudal obligations.
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fallow
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land that has undergone plowing and harrowing and has been left unseeded for one or more growing seasons.
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chivalry
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the sum of the ideal qualifications of a knight, including courtesy, generosity, valor, and dexterity in arms.
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page
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a youth in attendance on a person of rank or, in medieval times, a youth being trained for knighthood.
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squire
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a young man of noble birth, who attended upon a knight
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divine right
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the doctrine that the right of rule derives directly from god, not from the consent of the people.
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serf
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a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
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peasant
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a member of a class of persons, as in Europe who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.
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apprentice
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a person legally bound through indenture to a master craftsman in order to learn a trade.
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journeyman
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a person who has served an apprenticeship at a trade or handicraft and is certified to work at it assisting or under another person.
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guild
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an organization of persons with related interests, goals, etc., esp. one formed for help or protection.
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charter
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a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges
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salvation
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entry into heaven
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sacrament
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a solemn rite of Christian churches
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excommunication
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to sentence (a member of the Church) to exclusion from the communion of believers and from the privileges and public prayers of the Church
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heretic
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a baptized Roman Catholic who willfully and persistently rejects any article of faith.
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gargoyle
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a spout, terminating in a grotesque representation of a human or animal figure with open mouth, projecting from the gutter of a building for throwing rain water clear of a building.
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flying buttress
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a segmental arch transmitting an outward and downward thrust to a solid buttress that through its inertia transforms the thrust into a vertical one.
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pilgrimage
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a journey, esp. a long one, made to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion:
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magna carta
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the “great charter” of English liberties, forced from King John by the English barons and sealed at Runnymede, June 15, 1215.
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habeus corpus
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the principle that accused persons cannot be held in jail without the consent of a court
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parliament
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a legislative body in any of various other countries.
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buboes
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an inflammatory swelling of a lymphatic gland
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flagellants
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a person who flagellates or scourges himself or herself for religious discipline.
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pestilence
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a deadly or virulent epidemic disease; bubonic plague
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