Middle Ages Vocabulary

time period ranging from 500 to 1500 CE

• Monk

• Feudalism

• Middle Ages

• Knight

related to the Middle Ages

• Monk

• Medieval

• Friar

• Feudalism

a man who was dedicated to his religion and lived in an isolated community

• Nun

• Friar

• Knight

• monk

a community of monks

• convent

• monastery

• castle

• chivalry

one of the first missionaries who spread Christianity to Ireland

• Charlemagne

• St. Patrick

• St. Peter

• Jesus

leader of the Franks who united many European tribes under a single empire

• Charlemagne

• St. Patrick

• St. Peter

• Jesus

soldiers who fought on horseback

• serfs

• nobles

• saints

• knights

the qualities expected of a knight, such as courage, honor, and courtesy

• chivalry

• peasants

• morals

• fief

a plot of land given to a vassal

• knight

• Holy Land

• fief

• continent

a knight who received land in exchange for supporting a noble

• monk

• serf

• peasant

• vassal