Across
- 3. investiture, term used for investiture of clerics by the king or emperor
- 7. period of intense investigating
- 8. 1, frankish leader 465-511 founded merovingian kingdom
- 14. Aka charles the great king 768-774
- 15. martel, france frankish leader christian
- 17. centuries long battles between christians and muslims
- 19. the buying or selling of ecclesiastical privileges, for example pardons or benefices
- 20. law, set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (Church leadership),
- 22. pastor of catholic church
- 24. labor workers for feudal system
- 25. head of muslim military
Down
- 1. follower of christian music
- 2. holder of land for feudal tenure
- 4. period of religous wars
- 5. soldier in rennisance
- 6. roman empire, multi-ethnic complex of territories in Western and Central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages
- 8. dynasty, frankish family founded by charles martel
- 9. everyday language
- 10. not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order
- 11. ages, period of history 5 centuries
- 12. Richard 2, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399
- 13. great schism, break of communion since the 11th century between the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Churches
- 16. someone with great power
- 18. urban 2, head of catholic church died March 1088
- 21. expression of human skill
- 23. used by people of near east during crusades for western europeans