Across
- 2. a goblet; in Christian liturgy, the Eucharistic cup
- 8. a professional entertainer who wandered from court to court in medieval Europe
- 9. romance, a tale of adventure that supplanted the older chanson de geste and that deals with knights, kings, and ladies acting under the impulse of love, religious faith, or the desire for adventure
- 11. a square tower, the strongest and most secure part of the medieval castle
- 12. the system of political organization prevailing in Europe between the ninth and fifteenth centuries and having as its basis the exchange of land for military defense
- 14. an extended fictional prose narrative
- 16. loyalty; the fidelity of the warrior to his chieftain
- 19. tooth-shaped battlements surmounting a wall and used for defensive combat
- 21. any member of the feudal nobility who vowed to serve a lord in exchange for control of a fief
- 22. mail, a flexible medieval armor made of interlinked metal rings
- 24. a code of behavior practiced by upper-class men and women of medieval society
- 25. a wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding a fortified place such as a castle
Down
- 1. the principle by which a fief was passed from father to eldest son
- 3. the procedure by which a feudal lord granted a vassal control over a fief
- 4. a form of personal combat, usually with lances on horseback, between men-at-arms
- 5. the dining hall of a monastery
- 6. a special kind of trope consisting of words added to the melismatic passages of Gregorian chant
- 7. a two-term metaphor used in Old English verse
- 10. ornamented with figural or decorative elements
- 13. the economic basis of medieval feudalism involving mutual obligations between feudal lords and serfs
- 15. a revival of the learning of former and especially Classical culture
- 17. a medieval composer and performer of poems devoted to courtly love, chivalry, religion, and politics
- 18. a shallow dish
- 20. a verse sung in response to a religious text
- 23. any member of the feudal nobility who invested a vassal with a fief
- 24. law, the body of unwritten law developed primarily from judicial decisions based on custom and precedent; the basis of the English legal system and that of all states in the United States with the exception of Louisiana