Middle ages vocab

Institution of the Roman Catholic Church that sought to eliminate heresy by seeking out and punishing heretics; especially active in Spain in the late 1400s and 1500s.

• Hundred Years War

• Inquisition

• Serfs

• Reconquista

Peasants who were legally bound to their lord's land.

• Serfs

• knights

• Vassals

• Fiefs

A charter agreed to by King John of England that granted nobles certain rights and restricted king's powers.

• Hammurabi's Code

• Bible

• Magna Carta

• Constitution

The governing body of England.

• Parliament

• President

• Congress

Long storied, written in the early 1200s, about great Icelandic (Vikings) heroes and events

• Troubadors

• Fairy Tales

• Sagas

A series of wars carried out by European Christians to gain control of the Holy Land from their Muslim rulers.

• Feudalism

• Crusades

• Hundred Years War

• War of the Roses

Traveling singers who entertained people during the middle ages.

• Crusaders

• Journey Man

• Troubadours

• Guilds

(1337-1453) War fought between France and England for control of the French throne

• Hundred Years War

• Crusades

• War of the Roses

A grant of land from a lord to a vassal

• Manor

• Vassal

• Fief

A skilled worker who was paid wages by the master of a guild.

• Journey man

• Guild

• Vassal

• Knight