Vocab #9

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Across
  1. 2. the person paying for the work of art
  2. 4. modeled on or aiming for a state in which everything is perfect; idealistic.
  3. 8. an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on their lord's estate.
  4. 10. member of a Central Asian ethnographic group of closely related tribal peoples who live mainly on the Mongolian Plateau and share a common language and nomadic tradition
  5. 12. the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law
  6. 13. a member of a people who originated in the Urals and migrated westward to settle in what is now Hungary in the 9th century AD.
  7. 14. a holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance.
  8. 15. the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.
  9. 16. a large country house with lands; the principal house of a landed estate.
  10. 18. the part of English law that is derived from custom and judicial precedent rather than statutes. Often contrasted with statutory law.
  11. 20. denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.
  12. 22. historical groups of people that once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages
  13. 24. a series of armed conflicts fought between the kingdoms of England and France during the Late Middle Ages
Down
  1. 1. a judicial institution that lasted between 1478 and 1834.
  2. 3. a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages
  3. 5. an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.
  4. 6. the illegal action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest.
  5. 7. a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353
  6. 9. a western European people during the Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages
  7. 11. a series of military expeditions called the Crusades was launched from Christian Europe against the peoples of the Near East
  8. 17. a cultural group that inhabited much of what is now England in the Early Middle Ages
  9. 19. relating to the Middle Ages.
  10. 21. the medieval knightly system with its religious, moral, and social code.
  11. 23. an estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service.