Vocab #8

3. a cultural group that inhabited much of what is now England in the Early Middle Ages
4. skilled horsemen who were well known for carrying out carefully planned, coordinated attacks.
5. The first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law.
7. Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism
11. the illegal action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest.
12. a series of armed conflicts between the kingdoms of England and France
15. the legal, economic, military, cultural and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe
17. a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages.
19. a large country house with lands; the principal house of a landed estate.
21. between 1400 and 1450.
22. a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Western Eurasia and North Africa from 1346 to 1353
23. modeled on or aiming for a state in which everything is perfect; idealistic.

1. the Franks were named from their national weapon
2. a body of unwritten laws based on legal precedents established by the courts.
6. a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims
8. an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on their lord's estate.
9. The Germanic peoples were historical groups of people that once occupied Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages
10. the person paying for the work of ar
13. the medieval knightly system with its religious, moral, and social code.
14. a holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance.
15. an estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service.
16. denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.
18. Hungarians, also known as Magyars, are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary
20. a judicial institution that lasted between 1478 and 1834