Life in Medieval Christendom Vocabulary(9)

estate granted by a lord to a vassal

• A Middle Ages

• fief

• medieval

• university

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

• natural law

• A Middle Ages

• chivalry

• university

self-sufficient estate of a medieval lord

• manor

• natural law

• medieval

• university

school, or group of schools, that trains scholars at the highest levels

• fallow

• A Middle Ages

• university

• topography

physical features of a place

• Mendicant Order

• topography

• natural law

• fief

idea that there are laws in nature that are basic to both the natural world and human affairs

• natural law

• fallow

• chivalry

• Mendicant Order

large community of Christians spread across the world

• Christendom

• fief

• manor

• university

order founded to fight heresy and to preach to ordinary people

• fallow

• A Middle Ages

• Mendicant Order

• topography

noblemen during medieval Europe, who received land from other noblemen in return for their services

• guild

• vassal

• natural law

• Mendicant Order

warrior mounted on horseback

• knight

• fallow

• chivalry

• Mendicant Order