Medieval Europe Vocabulary

an agreement between the pope and the ruler of a country

• vernacular

• grand jury

• concordat

• trial jury

a group of merchants or craftspeople

• concordat

• serf

• chilvary

• guild

people sent out to teach their religion

• missionaries

• hersy

• theology

• plauge

a lower ranking noble who served a lord

• serf

• vassal

• mass

• plague

a feudal estate belonging to a vassal

• anti-semitism

• fief

• mass

• hersy

hostility toward or discrimination against the Jews

• trail jury

• grand jury

• mass

• anti-semitism

the system or customs of medieval knighthood

• knights

• chilvary

• reconquista

• hersy

armed warriors who fought on horseback

• chilvary

• serf

• knight

• vassal

political order where nobles governed and protected people in return for services

• feudalism

• chivalry

• knights

• serf

catholic worship service

• vernacular

• scholasticism

• hersy

• mass