Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600–1450 CE
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Associations of artisans and merchants intended to protect and promote affairs of common interest.

A term initiated by William I to designate feudal vassals who held lands in return for service and loyalty to the king.

An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.

Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox.

All territories within France controlled directly by the king.

A representative assembly in England that, by the fourteenth century, was composed of great lords (both lay and ecclesiastical) and representatives from two other groups: shire knights and town burgesses.

A medieval method of determining theological and philosophical truth by using Aristotelian logic.

The act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign.

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

The native, common spoken language of a particular region.

The law of the church.

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

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