Middle Ages Vocabulary

Ceremony in which a Vassal promises loyalty to the Lord.

• Act of Homage

• Code of Chivalry

• Feudal System

• Primogenture

Medieval official who saw that the peasants did their work.

• Knight

• Fallow

• Bailiff

• Squire

Large fortified house where a King and his family would live.

• Castle

• Manor

• Homage

• Renissance

Religious leaders

• Bailiff

• Page

• Clergy

• Nobles

Rules knights had to live by

• Act of Homage

• Code of Chivalry

• Feudalism

• Primogeniture

Medieval political system based on the relation between the Lords and Vassals

• Homage

• Feudalism

• Primogeniture

• Monarchy

Warriors on horseback

• Knight

• Page

• Squire

• King

A period of time when learning and civilization declined.

• Renaissance

• Industrial Revolution

• Golden Age

• Dark Ages

Period of time in Western Europe history between the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance

• Classical Period

• Middle Ages

• Golden Age

• Renaissance Period

Medieval estates with a Lord and tenants.

• Fief

• Manor

• Castle

• Fallow