The Medieval Europe
Across
- 4. A warrior
- 6. The principal church of an area
- 7. Person who owes obligations of loyalty and service to another
- 9. Man belonging to a religious order who has dedicated his life to serving God and lives in a monastery
- 10. The act of surrounding a castle (or a town), trapping its inhabitants inside
- 12. System of social organisation based on providing land in return for loyalty and work
- 13. The offence of contradicting the church’s teachings
Down
- 1. A village and its surrounding land controlled by a feudal lord
- 2. A wooden frame with holes for the feet, used as a punishment
- 3. A form of Christianity centred on Rome with the Pope as its leader and the most powerful religion in western and central Europe by the 1100s
- 5. Land left without a sown crop for a season or more
- 8. 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
- 11. The loyalty owed by a vassal to his lord