Medieval Vocabulary

cloth used to wrap a body for burial

• shun

• shroud

• steward

• tunic

writing material made from the skin of a sheep or goat

• peasant

• papyrus

• parchment

• oracle bones

A large estate, often including farms and a village, ruled by a lord.

• manor

• mill

• forge

• croft

someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else

• serf

• lord

• blacksmith

• steward

a very poor person

• fuller

• miller

• pauper

• entrepreneur

a structure for hanging criminals

• gallows

• guillotine

• stocks

• stage

a loose garment, typically sleeveless and reaching to the wearer's knees

• Cloak

• alb

• habit

• tunic

a regulation requiring people to be inside at a certain time

• Taxation

• Curfew

• Sanctions

• Quarantine

joke

• serf

• croft

• jest

• remark

impenetrable

• Unstable

• Unacceptable

• impossible to pass through or enter