🏰 ME — Glossary

Match the following definition to the correct Medieval Europe key term:

• Dowry:

• - something which helps to make a building more stable.

• Clergy:

• - a word used to refer to countries where Catholicism was the main religion.

• Charter:

• - money, goods or land which a woman brought to her husband upon marriage .

• Buttresses:

• - anything given to the poor as charity.

• Alms:

• - people who had taken formal vows to devote their lives to God.

Match the following definitions with their correct Medieval Europe key term:

• Frescoes:

• - paintings on a plaster wall or ceiling.

• Feudal system:

• - style of medieval architecture featuring pointed arches and flying buttresses.

• Gargoyle:

• - a way of organising land use and control of society in medieval times.

• Gothic:

• - land from which a church gains an income in rent or crops.

• Glebe:

• - a stone water spout, often with an ugly face, attached to a building to drain rainwater from its gutters.

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• Guild:

• - statement which goes against the teachings of the Catholic Church.

• Manuscripts:

• - a journey people take to a place that holds special religious significance for them.

• Pilgrimage:

• - books or documents which have been written by hand.

• Heresy:

• - organisations which set work standards for members and offered them protection.

• Motte and Bailey:

• - the earth mound and outer fenced-in courtyard of a motte and Bailey castle.

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• Subtlety:

• - special food dish designed to impress guests with its imaginative presentation.

• Siege:

• - thick soup made from whatever vegetables were available; it sometimes included meat or fish.

• Romanesque:

• - surrounding a castle or town in the attempt to starve the inhabitants into submission.

• Sanctuary:

• - a style of architecture used in the Middle Ages.

• Pottage:

• - protection offered by the Church to those who confessed their crimes and promised to leave the country.

Match the following definitions with their correct Medieval Europe key term:

• Villeins:

• - peasants under the control of the lord of the manor who had to provide him with certain services.

• Tithe:

• - a tax equal to 10% of a person’s produce or income paid to the church.

• Treason:

• - the crime for not being loyal to the monarch.

Most people in medieval Europe lived in the countryside were unlikely to ever travel...

• ...more than 16 kilometres from their home.

• ... more than 100 kilometres from their home.

• ... more than 26 kilometres from their homes.

• ... more than 56 kilometres from their homes.

Most people in medieval Europe had a life expectancy of ...

• ... less than 40 years.

• ... less than 50 years.

• ... less than 60 years.

• ... less than 70 years.

• ... less than 80 years.

Who in medieval Europe had huge power in the politics, daily life and law-making?

• Christianity via the Catholic Church.

• Christianity via the Anglican Church.

• Christianity via the Protestant Church.

• Christianity via the Lutheran Church.

What did Christianity do positively for people in medieval Europe? 4 marks

• Christianity united people spiritually.

• Christianity provided stability and order.

• Christianity provided a belief system.

• Christianity united people culturally.

• Christianity reminded people of their position in life.