Across
- 2. an outbreak of a rapid spreading disease
- 4. a loosely organized system of rule in which lords divided their landholdings among lesser lords
- 8. expert sailors from Scandinavia
- 10. the creator of a unified Christian Empire
- 11. stone supports of a building that let walls rise higher with bigger windows
- 12. a series of wars over control of lands in the middle east
- 13. a trainee who earns no wages
- 15. monks who didn't live in isolated monasteries, but instead traveled and preached to the poor
Down
- 1. knight's code of conduct
- 3. rules to regulate monastic life, included three vows to be taken by a monk
- 5. everyday language of ordinary people
- 6. someone who paid rent for his land
- 7. a lord's estate
- 9. a church court that tried people accused of heresy
- 14. a document stating the rights and privileges of a town