Medieval Europe

4. Leader of monks in a large monastery or abbey
5. A counterweighted catapult for throwing heavy objects against and over a castle wall during a siege
9. The principal church or an area
10. Peasants under the lord's control who worked three days each week on his land and did 'boon work' of five days a week at harvest time
12. A warrior

1. Code or moral behaviour of knights
2. A wooden frame with holes for the head and hands, in which an offender was imprisoned and exposed to public abuse
3. Young male servant
6. The battles fought between Muslims and European Christians for control of Palestine, mainly from 1095 to 1250
7. The act of surrounding a castle (or a town, trapping its inhabitants inside
8. Mid-fourteenth century plague that resulted in a huge loss of life in Europe, Africa, and Asia
11. Woman belong to a religious order who has dedicated her life to serving God and lives in a convent