Extra Credit Assigment 7: Middle Ages: Dark Ages vocabulary

Middle Ages: Dark Ages vocabulary

Middle ages: medieval

Dark ages: called like this because we don't have much information about it.

Dominance: control

Treaty: agreement

Carolingian: era of Charlemagne

Feudalism: economic system of the Middle Ages based on land.

Vassals: a person who held land from a feudal lord.

Fiefs: the property granted  to a vassal

Sefs: ---------------

Knights: warriors of the middle ages.

Tournaments: athletic competitions.

Chilvary: the code of the knights.

Courty love: devotion to an unattunable lady.

Troubadors and minstrels: singing poets.

Moats: the water that surrounds a castle.

Drawbridge: a bridge that goes dowmn and up (of a castle)

Keeps: the toweres from the corners.

Seige: a long attack on a castle.

Beseiged: ----------

Excommunication: being thrown out from the church.

Interdict: to throw out an entire country from the church. 

Papacy: pope

Anti-popes: competing pretender popes.

Orthodoxy: approved beliefs by the church.

Heresy: unapproved beliefs by the church.

Heretics: people who comit heresy.

Sacrilege: disrespect at sacred subjects.

Blasphemy: verbal disrespect.

Monk: people devoted to a discipline prescribed by his order. Live in monasteries.

Monasteries: were monks lived.

Abbots: leaders of monasteries.

Nuns: women who live in convents. A woman who belong to a religious order devoted to active service.

Convents: were nuns lived.

Absseses: leaders of convents.

Monastic life: To have vows of chastity, poverty and obedience.

Beneedicitne rule: vows of poverty, obedience, chastity.

Religious orders: is a lineage of communities and organizations of people who live in the same way appart from society. 

Friars: traveling monks.

Cloisters. gardens in monasteries. In the middle is an open air space.

Chastity: sexual purity.