Topic 9 Life in Medieval Christendom

About 529, an Italian monk developed a structured way of monastic life known as the

• Monastic Life

• Benedictine Rule

• Clairvaux Rights

• Sacrament for Monks

code of conduct in medieval Europe that required knights to be brave, loyal, and honest

• missionary

• pagan

• sacrament

• chivalry

people who are trained and ordained for religious purposes.

• clergy

• kings

• serf

• slave

large community of Christians spread across the world.

• sacrament

• Christendom

• monastery

• king

historians call this period of European history between ancient and modern times the

• Byzantine period

• Stone Ages

• Middle Ages

• prehistoric

Latin meaning "middle age"

• medieval

• squire

• peasant

• serf

the physical features of the Earth's surface

• geneology

• biography

• topography

• climate

a follower of a polytheistic religion

• pagan

• monotheist

• vassal

• manor

a person who tries to convert others to a particular religion.

• saint

• missionary

• Christendom

• medieval

an especially holy person

• pagan

• saint

• vassal

• noble