Matching Pairs Middle Ages VocabularyOnline version Middle Ages Vocabulary by ETHAN ZINK 1 clergy 2 chivalry 3 Black Plague 4 Crusades 5 Catholicism 6 Dark Age 7 Catch 22 8 Eastern Orthodox the medieval knightly system with its religious, moral, and social code the faith, practice, and church order of the Roman Catholic Church each of a series of medieval military expeditions made by Europeans to the Holy Land in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries consisting of Eastern churches, honoring Constantinople's patriarch, follow first seven councils and Byzantine rite the body of all people ordained for religious duties, especially in the Christian Church the period in western Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the high Middle Ages a bubonic plague pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353 a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions 1 estate 2 guild 3 Feudalism 4 illiterate 5 Fief 6 heretic 7 Indulgence 8 heliocentric someone who could not read or write someone who held beliefs or opinions that deviated from the official teachings of the Christian Church was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe having or representing the sun as the centre, as in the accepted astronomical model of the solar system a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law. It consisted of a form of property holding or other rights a social hierarchy that divided society into distinct classes an association of craftsmen or merchants formed for mutual aid and protection and for the furtherance of their professional interests a remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, granted by the Catholic Church 1 Inquisition 2 manor 3 Magna Carta 4 keep (castle) 5 joust 6 knight 7 infidel 8 Latin Medieval contest: two mounted knights charge with lances to strike or unhorse each other, showing skill and chivalry (Latin for "Great Charter") was a historic document signed in 1215 in England, primarily between King John and his rebellious barons. the primary written and liturgical language of Western Europe, used by the Catholic Church, scholars, and administrators a mounted warrior of noble or elite status, trained in combat and bound by the code of chivalry a self-sufficient agricultural estate, typically owned by a lord and worked by peasants or serfs a formal institution or process established by the Catholic Church to identify, investigate, and suppress heresy a castle's central fortified tower, housing the lord, serving as a defensive stronghold, and acting as an administrative hub in the Middle Ages a term used primarily by Christians to describe someone who did not believe in Christianity 1 Medieval 2 printing press 3 pestilence 4 monastery 5 power vacuum 6 movable type 7 peasant 8 secular a situation where a region, kingdom, or institution experienced a lack of strong central authority or leadership a term used to describe a deadly epidemic or contagious disease that caused widespread illness and death a religious community where monks lived, worked, and worshipped, dedicated to a life of prayer, asceticism, and service to God a member of the lower social class in rural Europe, typically working as a farmer or laborer on land owned by a lord or manor under the feudal system referred to people, institutions, or activities that were not directly associated with the Church or religious life printing technology that used pieces, each representing a letter, number, or symbol, which could be arranged to form words and sentences for printing refers to the historical period in Europe roughly spanning from the 5th to the late 15th century; also know as the Middle Ages a mechanical device developed at the very end of the medieval period to produce books and documents by pressing inked movable type onto paper 1 serf 2 vassal 3 vernacular 4 venue a person who entered into a formal agreement to serve a lord or king in exchange for land or protection within the feudal system referred to the everyday spoken language of a specific region or community, as opposed to Latin a peasant who was legally bound to the land they worked on within the feudal system, under the control of a lord a legal term derived from Old French and Latin (vicinitas, meaning "neighborhood" or "vicinity")