medieval europe

3. any male person who has taken religious vows of poverty and celibacy in order to dedicate himself to a life of disciplined religious practice
4. a document guaranteeing English political liberties that was drafted at Runnymede
6. fatal epidemic disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, transmitted from person to person or by the bite of fleas from an infected host, especially a rat,
7. the eastern continuation of the Roman Empire after the Western Roman Empire's fall in the fifth century CE
8. a tenant farmer was bound to a hereditary plot of land and to the will of his landlord
9. an enormous architectural marvel in Istanbul, Turkey, that was originally built as a Christian basilica
10. a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church

1. collections of laws and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I
2. a distinctive feature of the penitential system of both the Western medieval and the Roman Catholic Church that granted full or partial remission of the punishment of sin.
3. social system by which the peasants of medieval Europe were rendered dependent on their land and on their lord.
5. 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.