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Vocabulary
Breanna Morales Medieval Words
Term | Definition |
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Tradition | Belief, custom, or old way of doing something. |
Issue | To put something forth officially. |
Transform | To change something completely. |
Document | Piece of paper that has official information on it. |
Establish | To set up or start something. |
Expel | To force someone to leave a place. |
Impose | To introduce something and force people to accept it. |
Economy | System by which a country's money and goods are produced and used. |
Clergy | Group of people who give their lives to serve the church as priests, monks, and higher church officials. |
Pope Leo lll | Leo had left Rome after rivals had planned to bling him and remove him from the office. |
Coronation | Crowning ceremony. |
Pope Gregory lV | He had strong ideas about the powers of the pope and issued a list of rules declaring his supreme authority. |
Secular | Non church. |
Henry lV | Reacted to Gregory's new rulers by giving a clash of the two men. . |
Excommunicate | Means to exclude a person from a church or religious community. |
William the conquer | Invaded Southern England and waited for England's army to confront them. |
King John | He claimed to rule Normandy in France. |
Common Law | Body of law that has developed from custom and from judges decisions rather than laws passed by a law-making assembly. |
Habeas corpus | Refers to a court older to bring an arrested person before a judge or court. |
Writ | Court order. |
Parliament | An assembly of representatives who makes law. |
Pilgrim | Religious person who travels to a holy place to shrine. |
Crusade | Christan religious wars. |
Heresy | A belief that is rejected by an official church doctrine. |
Inquisition | It was a church court designed to investigate and judge heretics. |
Reconquista | The movement to drive the Muslims to Spain. |
Isabella | Her royal marriage took place in 1469. |
Ferdinand | Married Isabella of Castle- Leon |