Medieval Vocabulary Review

2. the head of the Roman Catholic Church
4. the landed estate of a lord, including the house on it
8. the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance
10. a young man who served a knight and learned to fight in his training to become a knight
13. the medieval knight’s code of ideal behavior, including bravery, loyalty, and respect for women
14. a person of noble birth who controls the manor
15. an organization of people in the same craft or trade
16. the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe
17. a person who does farm work for wealthy landowners
19. a combat between mounted knights tilting against each other
20. land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service

1. relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
3. a privileged upper class holding hereditary titles
5. the body of people, such as priests, who perform the sacred functions of a church
6. a written legal agreement signed in 1215 that limited the English monarch’s power
7. a person who owes loyalty in exchange for receiving something valuable, such as land
9. the economic and political system of medieval Europe in which a lord required loyalty and labor in return for protection
11. a military blockade and attack on a city to force it to surrender
12. a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry
17. a young boy who learned manners and received an education as part of his training to learn to become a knight
18. a peasant who could not leave the lord’s land on which he or she was born and worked