Key Terms-Life in the High Middle Ages

Language or dialect native to a region or country, rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language; the normal spoken form of a language

• Secular

• Vernacular

• Fresco

• Perspective

• Humanism

People between the nobles and the peasants; today, this social class made up of professionals, skilled workers, business people and wealthy farmers

• Journeyman
• Guild
• Vassal
• Middle Class
• Investiture

Poet and musician who traveled around traveled and entertained people with songs about chivalry and courtly love

• Troubadour
• Bard
• Jester
• Jongleur

• Skald

Holy object, something believed to have been associated with Jesus or one of the Christian saints

• relic
• amulet
• idol
• artifact
• memento

One who travels to a holy place to worship or as an act of religious devotion

• Crusader

• Pilgrim
• Wayfarer

• Voyager
• Devotee

Medieval poet/musician who sang or recited while accompanying himself on a stringed instrument

• Pantaloon

• Merryman

• Jester
• Minstrel
• Balladeer

Person who works at a craft for wages under supervision of a master

• amateur

• novice
• apprentice
• journeyman
• trainee

Association of craftspeople or merchants who oversee the practice of their craft or occupation in an area

• Guild
• Federation
• Alliance
• League

• Club

Carved, arched, stone structure that braces the outside of a building and provides support to a heavy wall

• jutting crosspiece

• post and beam support

• span underpinning

• flying buttress

• ribbed vault

Inactive land; plowed but left unseeded for at least one growing season

• Fallow

• Fief

• Manor

• Investiture

• Serf