Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600–1450 CE
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An arrangement in which vassals were protected and maintained by their lords, usually through the granting of fiefs, and required to serve under them in war.

Those countries professing Christian beliefs under the primacy of the pope.

The urban-based middle class between the wealthy aristocracy and the working class.

The period 1378-1417, marked by divided papal allegiances in Latin Christendom.

The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.

The French representative assembly, composed of the three social "estates" in France, first convened by Philip IV.

The native, common spoken language of a particular region.

Associations of artisans and merchants intended to protect and promote affairs of common interest.

The medieval European system of self-sustaining agricultural estates.

All territories within France controlled directly by the king.

A trade network of allied ports along the North Sea and Baltic coasts, founded in 1256.

A written order issued by a court, commanding the party to whom it is addressed to perform or cease performing a specified act.

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