Germanic people who held power in Gaul
Franks
Armored horsemen
Knights
Reunited western Europe
Charlemagne
Granted land
Fief
Lord’s estate
Manor
Pertaining to the Middle Ages
Medieval
Religious communities for monks
Monasteries
Religious officials
Clergy
Medieval system of alliances and relationships
Feudalism
Church tax
Tithe
Famous medieval epic poem (3 wrds)
Song of Roland
Reign of Frankish rulers from 751 to 987
Carolingian
Poet-musicians who celebrated romantic love
Troubadours
Peasants bound to the land
Serfs
Code of knightly behavior
Chivalry
Person receiving a fief
Vassal
Church tribunal to suppress heresy
Inquisition
Led Norman Conquest
William
Black Death (2 wrds)
Bubonic Plague
Segregated part of town
Ghetto
Pope who launched the Crusades (2 wrds)
Urban II
Aquinas and his fellow scholars
Scholastics
“Great Charter” (2 wrds)
Magna Carta
Christian “holy war”
Crusade
Sale of Church positions
Simony
Spanish effort to drive out Muslims
Reconquista
Introduced use of jury (2 wrds)
Henry II
Deviation from Church teachings
Heresy
Heroine of Orleans
Joan of Arc
Author of The Canterbury Tales
Chaucer
Association of merchants or artisans
Guild
