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Medieval Europe Final exam vocabulary Flashcards

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Alecaster

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manorial Court officer overseeing brewers for quality control

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Advowson

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Right to appoint someone to an ecclesiastical office

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Anchorhold

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Cell for Achoress/Achorite devoted to prayer and study

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Ancient demesne

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Manor owned directly by william I in 1086

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Assart

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Former wasteland turned into cultivated land

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Bailiff

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Chief administrative officer of a manor

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Boon-work

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Extra harvest labor by serfs beyond regular work

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Brewster

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Female brewer in medieval England

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By-Laws

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Community rules set by manorial court tenants

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Chancel

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Church sanctuary where Mass is Celebrated

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Chevage

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head tax levied on tenants, often paid by serfs

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Churching

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Religious Ceremony for new mothers after birth

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Common Lands

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Shared lands for grazing by manor tenants

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Coverture

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Legal state of wives covered by husbands

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Cuckingstool

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Punishment set, often for women like brewsters

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Deacon

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Cleric below a priest, assisting in religious duties

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Demesne

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Manorial land reserved for direct use

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Diocese

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District administered by a bishop

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dower

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lands set aside for a widow after her husband’s death

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dowry

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payment from the brides family to the husband at marriage

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fallow

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unplanted land left to reign productivity

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Domesday book

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Survey of english lands, landowners, and tenants in 1086

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Feudalism

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political, military, and social system of medieval elite

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Friar

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Member of mendicant religious orders like dominicans

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Gleaning

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Collecting missed grain in harvested fields

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Hayward

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Supervisor of manor fields and serf work

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heriot

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Payment to manor when an unfree tenant dies

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Hue and cry

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Loud shout to catch wrongdoers at a crime scene

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Jury

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Panel of jurors reporting on misdoings or judging cases

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Leyrwite

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payment to manor from young women of serf status for sex outside of marriage

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Manor

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Estate worked by peasants foe owners profit

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manorialism

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Economic system where serfs and free peasants lived in manors

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Merchant

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Payment made to manor for serfs marriage

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Mortuary

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Payment to parish priest upon someone’s death

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Nave

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main area of church for congregation

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Oblation

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Payment to a priest for services to parishioner

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Open fields

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Fields surrounding villages with tenant strips

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Parish

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Smallest unit in the ecclesiastical system

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parish clerk

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Assists parish priest in duties, especially reading and writing

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Pledge

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Person guaranteeing payment for obligation fulfillment

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Pound sterling

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Monetary unit worth 240 pence or 20 shillings

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Pence

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Plural of penny, essential medieval coin

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Rector

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Priest attending to parish religious needs

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Reeve

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Officer managing daily manor business

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Rod

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Small land measurement four rods make an acre

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Serf

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Unfree peasants tied to manor, work, and fees

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SingleWomen

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medieval term for an unmarried women

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Strip

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Narrow arable land area demarcated in open fields

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Tallage

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tax on serfs levied by manorial lords

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three field system

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farming system rotating crops between three fields

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Three orders

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Medieval clergy idea of society’s three ranked groups

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Tithe

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Obligatory payment to the church of 10% of profits

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Tithing

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Group responsible for behavior, accused member judgement

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Tithingman

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In charge of tithing, elected annually

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Two field system

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Farming system that rotates crops between two fields

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vicar

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priest standing in for absent rector

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View of frankpledge

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Court ensuring males over 12 enrolled in tithing

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Villein

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English term for serf

59
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Week-work

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Serfs obligation to work on manorial demesne weekly

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