Medieval People
Knighthood
Crispin
Agriculture
Medieval Law
100
The people who have the most power in the Feudal System hierarchy.
Who are the king and queen?
100
The title that a knight had before his name.
What is Sir?
100
The name that everyone calls Crispin at the beginning of the book.
What is Asta's son?
100
The gathering of crops that are ripe.
What is harvesting?
100
The person who represented the king in all local matters.
Who is the lord of the manor?
200
Someone who has some power and owns some land in exchange for protecting the king and barons.
Who is a knight?
200
The title of a seven-year-old boy who is training to be a knight.
What is a page?
200
The name of the steward of Crispin's village.
What is John Aycliffe?
200
The way farmers prepared the fields.
What is ploughing?
200
Placing a hand in boiling water and seeing if the wound healed quickly to decide innocence or guilt.
What is ordeal by fire?
300
The two names for people who have to work for the lord, own no land, and have no power.
Who are the serfs or the peasants?
300
Someone who serves his knight by looking after his armour, weapons and horse, and going to tournaments with his knight.
What is a squire?
300
Three things that Bear and Crispin do in their performances.
What are dance, play the recorder, and juggle.
300
Two kinds of seeding.
What is broadcast sowing (seeing by hand) and dibbling (using a poking stick)?
300
Battling to prove who is innocent and who is guilty.
What is ordeal by fighting / ordeal by battle.
400
The two names for the people who have some power and land from the king and have to protect him.
Who are barons or great lords?
400
The ceremony where worthy squires were knighted.
What is a dubbing ceremony?
400
The village that Bear and Crispin travel to.
What is Great Wexly?
400
The way children defended fields from birds.
What is a sling?
400
It proves innocence in an ordeal by water.
What is sinking?
500
Father Quinel is one in Crispin.
What is a priest?
500
The code that tells a knight must be honourable, brave, loyal to the king, protect the weak and respect women.
What is the code of chivalry?
500
What Crispin is declared that means he may be killed.
What is a wolf's head?
500
The two steps to process the grain.
What are threshing and winnowing?
500
The wooden frame used to hang criminals.
What are the gallows?
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