Vocab 9

2. a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages
6. medieval knightly system
7. Plague) pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353
8. dominant social system in medieval Europe
13. a judicial institution that lasted between 1478 and 1834
14. the part of English law that is derived from custom and judicial precedent rather than statutes. Often contrasted with statutory law.
15. a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims
17. a Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
20. lowest class in the feudal system
22. series of armed conflicts fought between the kingdoms of England and France during the Late Middle Ages
23. an ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants exist under seemingly perfect conditions.
24. member of a Central Asian ethnographic group of closely related tribal peoples

1. not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order.
3. a cultural group that inhabited much of what is now England in the Early Middle Ages, and spoke Old English
4. 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.
5. tribes that once preoccupied Eurasia
9. the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law
10. a person whose support or protection is solicited or acknowledged by the dedication of a book or other work
11. the illegal action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest.
12. a person or country subordinate to another
16. land held on feudal serv.
18. relating to the Middle Ages
19. a large country house with lands; the principal house of a landed estate
21. a western European people during the Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages