Middle
Anything having to do with the Middle Ages.
What is medieval?
A male monarch; member of a royal family who is the supreme ruler of his nation or territory.
What is a king?
Large woven cloths with designs woven in of everyday life, hung on walls to keep out the cold and damp.
What are tapestries?
A deep, wide ditch surrounding a castle, fort, or town, typically filled with water and intended as a defense against attack.
What is a moat?
Head/leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
What is a pope?
A a medieval social system in which people were organized according to wealth and power on the social pyramid.
What is feudalism?
A peasant who worked the land - bound to the lord of the estate.
What is a serf ?
A strict code of conduct for knights during the Middle Ages.
What is chivalry?
A person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer (master), having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages.
What is an apprentice?
The Church that was central to Medieval Europeans' lives, it united Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
A European noble who served as a mounted soldier, an important soldier during the Middle Ages.
What is a knight?
Land given to a lord in return for loyalty and service.
What is a fief.
Surrounding a castle and keeping people and supplies from entering or leaving.
What is siege?
A skilled person who makes quality, practical or decorative goods.
What is a craftsman?
A series of holy wars from 1096-1270 AD undertaken by European Christians to free the Holy Land from Muslim rule.
What are the Crusades?
Someone who pledged to serve a person of higher rank.
What is a vassal?
A large estate, often including farms and a village, owned by a noble family.
What is a manor?
A contest where knights could fight in mock battles; useful in helping knights train for war.
What are tournaments?
A medieval association of people in the same craft or trade.
What is a guild.
(800-814 AD) crowned by the Pope as the head of the Holy Roman Empire, which extended from northern Spain to western Germany and northern Italy, spread Christianity/Roman Catholicism.
Who was Charlemagne?
A person of high rank by birth or title in a society.
What is a noble?
An economic system during the Middle Ages that revolved around self-sufficient farming estates where lords and peasants shared the land for mutual benefit.
What is manorialism?
The stronghold or fortress within a castle where the lord of the manor's ("owning noble") family lived.
What is a keep?
Very large churches, usually larger than the castles, built with various styles of architecture and skilled craftsmanship.
What are cathedrals?
Relating to a style of church architecture that developed in medieval Europe, featuring ribbed vaults, stained glass windows, flying buttresses, pointed arches, and tall spires.
What is Gothic?