Definitions 2 Flashcards
Lay investiture
The right to install bishops in office
Canon law
Laws written by the church based on the bible
Excommunication
Getting kicked out of a church
Crusades
Holy war to take Jerusalem back from Muslim Turks
Reconquista
War to drive Muslim’s out of Spain
Moors
Muslims in Spain
Inquisition
Church courts designed to punish heretics
Heretics
Not christian
Common law
Legal system based on customs and court rulings in England
Black Death
A plague that killed 1/3 of europes population
Hundred Years’ War
King of England claimed to be king of France and wanted France’s land sparking a war between England and France
Joan of arc
17 year old peasant girl who led the French to victory in life and in death by becoming a martyr
Serfs
Peasants who worked their lords manor who were bound to the land
Urban ii
The pope that proclaimed the first crusade
