Bundle 4 Vocab: Medieval and Religious Concepts

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Dark Ages

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Period used to describe the fall of the Western Roman Empire and of cultural, intellectual, and economic decline. It also becomes a deeply religious time.

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Charlemagne

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King of the Franks who united most of Europe through military campaigns that helped restore the Western Roman Empire and was crowned by Pope Leo III as 'Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire' signifying religious and political unity.

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Feudalism

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Political and military system in medieval Europe that also provided social organization through a rigid class system based on the feudal pyramid.

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Manorialism

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Economic system in which lords controlled and profited from the land while peasants provided labor; focusing on the relationship between the lord and the peasants working the estate.

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Serf

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Peasants who were attached to the land and the lord in which they worked; had few rights.

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Constantinople

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The capital of the Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire, which was the center for international trade bringing great wealth to the empire and cultural diffusion.

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Schism

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A formal split or separation.

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Eastern Orthodoxy

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A branch of Christianity that originated in the Eastern Roman Empire; the patriarch is the head of the church located in Constantinople.

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Roman Catholic Church

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A branch of Christianity in which the pope, or bishop of Rome, is the supreme head of the church.

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Divine Right

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A political and religious doctrine held that kings were chosen by God and ruled by His authority.