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Chapter 14
Term | Definition |
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Holy Land | the region where the site of the Holy Temple of the Jews was located where Jesus had lived and taught |
Pope Urban II | Leader of the Roman Catholic Church who asked European Christians to take up arms against the Muslims, starting the Crusades |
Crusades | a series of religious wars launched by the European Christians in the Middle Ages |
Saladin | Muslim sultan who overthrew the Seljuk Turks and drove the Christians out of Jerusalem, leading to the Third Crusade |
Richard the Lion-Hearted | King of England who led forces against the army of Saladin during the third Crusade |
Hanseatic League | a group of cities and towns in northern Germany that worked together to promote and protect trade |
credit | the promise of later payment for goods bought |
guilds | trade organizations in which all members set standards and prices for their products |
apprentice | someone who spent several years with a skilled crafter to learn basic skills of the craft |
journeyman | a person who has learned the basics of a career as an apprentice but is still learning from masters and has not yet opened his own shop |
Gothic | building style that used advances in engineering to make churches taller and brighter than earlier churches |
flying buttresses | supports that helped hold up church walls from the outside, allowing for much higher ceilings and an interior that had no columns |
illumination | the process of decorating a written manuscript with pictures or designs |
Hildegard of Bingen | a famous medieval nun who was both a poet and a composer |
troubadors | wandering singers who performed epics and romances |
Geoffrey Chaucer | English author of the Canterbury Tales |
Dante Alighieri | Italian author of the Divine Comedy |
Thoman Aquinas | influential scholar who argued that classical ideas could be used to improve people's understanding of Christian teachings |
Scholasticism | a combination of Christian faith and rational thought set forth by Aquinas |
heresy | beliefs that oppose the church's official teachings |
Inquisitions | legal procedures supervised by special judges who tried suspected heretics |
friars | members of religious orders who took vows of poverty and obedience and lived among the people to whom they preached |
Hundred Years' War | a war between Britain and France that began as a dispute over the throne of France |
Joan of Arc | peasant girl who led the French into battle during the Hundred Years' War and won several victories before she was captured, tried, and executed by the British |
Wars of the Roses | conflict between the York and Lancaster families for the English throne |
Henry VII | nobleman whose rise to king ended the Wars of the Roses and stared a new era in English history |
Black Death | a devastating plague that swept across Europe between 1347 and 1351 |