Church Vocabulary
What is secular?
These are associations of merchants and artisans
What are guilds?
They were the eyes and ears of Charlemagne's Empire
Who are the Missi Dominci
These buildings are considered one of the finest architectural buildings to come out of the Middle Ages
What are Cathedrals?
This was the term for a piece of land given to a vassal by a lord
What is a fief?
These are the guidelines that regular monastic life
What is Benedictine rule?
This is money used for an investment
What is capital?
He revived the love of Latin Learning
Who is Charlemagne?
This is what they call the laws of the Catholic Church
What are Canon Laws?
Lords granted vassals land in exchange for this
What is military service?
This is the penalty the Catholic Church imposes on individual Catholics
What is excommunication?
This is the term for a trainee working for a guild
He is the head of the Catholic Church
Who is The Pope?
This was the most powerful institution in Europe during The Middle Ages
What is the Catholic Church?
These people were not slaves, but they also were not free and had to ask their lords permission to leave the manor and were the largest part of the feudal system
What are serfs?
These are the sacred rituals of the church?
What are sacraments?
This is the written document that lists the rules of a town
What is a charter?
The Franks and The Goths are two names of these
What are Germanic Tribes?
These religious clergy helped to improve life during The Middle Ages by helping the sick and needy
Who are monks and nuns?
Farms on manors provided the residents with all of their needs, this is referred to as being
What is self-sufficient?
This is the action the Catholic Church imposes on entire villages
What is Interdict?
This is the tax that people paid to the church
What is a tithe?
These two groups were notorious foreign invaders of Europe during The Middle Ages
Who are the Vikings and the Muslims?
People started demanding church reform because this started to happen
What is corruption?
This system lead to more crops produced