Middle Ages

1. a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
3. an organization of persons with related interests, goals, etc., especially one formed for mutual aid or protection.
6. an official investigation, especially one of a political or religious nature, characterized by lack of regard for individual rights, prejudice on the part of the examiners, and recklessly cruel punis
9. the field of study and analysis that treats of God and of God's attributes and relations to the universe; study of divine things or religious truth; divinity.
10. a person legally bound through indenture to a master craftsman in order to learn a trade.
13. hostility to or prejudice against Jews
14. Italian scholastic philosopher: a major theologian of the Roman Catholic Church.
15. opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine, especially of a church or religious system.
17. (in England) a landed estate or territorial unit, originally of the nature of a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and of lands within which he has the right to exercise certain privilege
18. Death a form of bubonic plague that spread over Europe in the 14th century and killed an estimated quarter of the population.

2. a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief.
4. the system of theological and philosophical teaching predominant in the Middle Ages, based chiefly upon the authority of the church fathers and of Aristotle and his commentators.
5. an authoritative prohibition.
7. A heavy wheeled plow that made an enormous impact on medieval agriculture north of the Alps
8. (of language) native or indigenous (opposed to literary or learned).
11. French History. a tax that was levied by a king or seigneur on his subjects or on lands held under him and that became solely a royal tax in the 15th century from which the lords and later the clergy
12. a surviving memorial of something past.
16. noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style