Definitions | See Category #1 | Feudalism Economy | Feudalism military service | Justice |
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What is a scriptorium?
This is the location where monks hand copied important texts, such as the Bible.
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Who are the Cluniacs?
This religious group was created amidst rising corruption in the Catholic church in the 10th century. They under direct control of the pope.
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Who are the COTTERS?
These are the "edge-dwellers" in feudal society, the day laborers, those who do the dirty jobs.
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What is 40?
How many days of service did vassals owe their lord?
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Who is the lord?
Who is responsible for justice in feudal society?
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What is simony?
This is the purchase of church positions.
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What is fallow?
This is name of a field, one of three, left empty in medieval agriculture.
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What is self-sufficient?
This is the goal of the manorial economic system.
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Who are peasant farmers.
This group was the most affected by battle.
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What is stocks, pillory, or gallows?
Penalties were severe and resulted in public shaming using one of these three modes of punishments.
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What is sanctuary
This law allowed people to find asylum within cathedrals, as in the Disney classic, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."
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Who are mendicant friars?
We have taken vows of poverty and our name literally translated into begging brothers.
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What is a extraordinary?
Vassals owed these types of payments to their lords, which include ransom, dowry for eldest daughters, building castles through corvee labor, crusading, and hospitality.
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What is summer?
Battles generally occurred in this season.
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What are gibbets?
The dead were hung on these?
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What is compurgation?
This legal practice allowed you to do as you please, so long as you had 12 people willing to declare your innocence.
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What is the Truce of God?
The decree that prevents battle from occurring on holy days and from Wednesday-Sunday, is known as this.
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What is scutage?
The was a tax paid by the wealthy to avoid military service.
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Who is the RCC?
This group attempted to stymie battles by limiting them Mon-Wed.
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What is a sword?
This, which was discussed in class, was convicted of falling on a passerby.
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What is the Hanseatic League?
This group dominated trade in the North Sea from approximately 1300-1500 c.e.
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What is Corvee?
This is a tax paid in labor.
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What is reciprocal?
The economic relationship between lord and vassal this one word but not equal?
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What is particularism?
Off topic: feudal society led to this view which means one had a very limited view of the larger world.
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Who is the lord?
Fines were payable to this person.
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