Middle Ages Europe Vocabulary

A deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351

• feudalism

• manor

• Black Death

• Magna Carta

Code of conduct for knights during the Middle Ages

• Chivalry

• heresy

• Parliament

• Crusades

Church officials

• knights

• clergy

• serf

• vassal

A long series of wars between Christians and Muslims in Southwest Asia

• Magna Carta

• Middle Ages

• Crusades

• Medieval

cast out from the church

• heresy

• monasteries

• religious order

• excommunicate

A political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land

• feudalism

• friar

• Parliament

• manor

A medieval member of the clergy who traveled from place to place preaching to the poor

• friar

• knights

• manor

• serf

ideas that go against the church

• monasteries

• excommunicate

• heresy

• vassal

Jerusalem and parts of the surrounding area where Jesus lived and taught

• Holy Land

• Hundred Years' War

• Medieval

• Parliament

a series of battles fought between France and England from 1337 to 1453

• Crusades

• Hundred Years' War

• Middle Ages

• feudalism