WS Chapter 2 Vocab

the bishop of Rome, who became an especially powerful member of medieval society

• pope

• manor

• Parliament

• circuit courts

a nobleman's self-supporting estate found in a feudal society

• manor

• Parliament

• chivalry

• circuit courts

a legal document issued by the king that listed privileges of the town's inhabitants and freed them from most feudal duties

• common law

• pope

• charter

• crusade

a group of advisors of the English king who were eventually divided into the House of Lords and the House of Commons

• crusade

• charter

• vernacular

• Parliament

a group of judges who traveled within a particular province to hear cases

• vernacular

• circuit courts

• Black Death

• chivalry

uniform laws set up by Henry II that applied to all of England and overruled differing local laws

• chivalry

• Black Death

• Parliament

• common law

a Roman Catholic effort to liberate the Holy Land from the "infidels"

• crusade

• Parliament

• manor

• vernacular

a code or strict set of rules and expectations for a knight

• circuit courts

• chivalry

• charter

• common law

a common spoken language

• pope

• crusade

• vernacular

• Black Death

a plague during the Middle Ages that killed perhaps as many as twenty-five million Europeans

• charter

• Parliament

• Black Death

• common law