Across
- 1. economic system of the Middle Ages that was built around large estates or manors where serfs worked and got protection
- 3. exclusion from the Roman Catholic Church as a penalty for refusing to obey Church law
- 5. a church court set up to try people accused of heresy
- 7. exchange of pledges between lords and vassals
- 8. loosely organized system of government in which local lords governed their own lands but owed military service to a greater lord
- 12. an epidemic of the bubonic plague that ravaged Europe
- 15. mounted warrior
- 16. claim that the medieval pope had authority over all secular rulers
- 17. a lord who was granted a fief in exchange for service and loyalty to a greater lord
Down
- 2. the European Christians driving the Muslims from Spain
- 4. referring to the Middle Ages in European
- 6. wandering poets or singers
- 8. estate or land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and military service or knights
- 9. the Great Charter signed by King John of England; it limited royal power
- 10. peasant bound to the lord's land
- 11. code of conduct for knights
- 13. six foot long bow that could rapidly fire arrows with enough force to pierce armor
- 14. Scandinavian people whose sailors raided Europe