Medieval Vocabulary

Question 1

Feudalism

Answer 1

Government by land-owning nobles

Question 2

Fiefs

Answer 2

Land grants, large estates

Question 3

Noble

Answer 3

Member of the upper class; including Kings, lords, ladies, Barons, knights

Question 4

Vassal

Answer 4

Noble who served a lord of higher rank and gave him loyalty

Question 5

Ladies

Answer 5

Noblewomen

Question 6

Knight

Answer 6

Warrior on horseback, wore armor and protected the Kings land

Question 7

Squire

Answer 7

Young noble under care and training of knight (12 to 15) years old

Question 8

Page

Answer 8

Young boy who helped knights of castle

Question 9

Code of Chivalry

Answer 9

Certain rules for knights to live by

Question 10

Heraldry

Answer 10

System of identification used by knights in battle

Question 11

Dubbing

Answer 11

Special ceremony to make a squire a knight

Question 12

Tournament

Answer 12

Special contests for knights

Question 13

Joust

Answer 13

Contest on horseback between two knights, most popular even at tournaments

Question 14

Serfs(Villeins)

Answer 14

Medical peasants; bound to land

Question 15

Freeman

Answer 15

Peasants who paid the noble the right to farm their land

Question 16

Excommunicated

Answer 16

To lose membership in church

Question 17

Heresy

Answer 17

To go against the churches beliefs

Question 18

Crusades

Answer 18

Series of holy wars fought between Christians and Muslims

Question 19

Burgs

Answer 19

Medieval towns

Question 20

Burghers

Answer 20

Merchants in medieval towns

Question 21

Manor

Answer 21

Self sufficient farming communities

Question 22

Canon laws

Answer 22

Laws set up by the Catholic Church

Question 23

Clergy

Answer 23

Religious leaders

Question 24

Catherdials

Answer 24

Grand churches headed by bishops

Question 25

Keep

Answer 25

Tall tower with thick walls inside the castle

Question 26

Castle

Answer 26

Fortified stone houses

Question 27

Renaissance

Answer 27

Rebirth in thinking, art, literature, culture