Renaissance Vocabulary

1. Refers to anything which is diseased or is caused by disease.
4. Pertaining to the city, as distinguished from the country.
6. Something affecting many people at the same time; refers especially to disease.
8. A system of glands and vessels that distribute a substance called lymph.
12. The economic, political and social organization of medieval Europe.
13. A person of high rank, who controlled a medieval manor.
15. Originally a 40-day period during which the personnel of a ship suspected of having the plague were obliged to wait before being allowed to go ashore.
17. Any disease that is spread from one individual to another by either direct or indirect contact.
18. A person in feudal servitude.

1. The period of Western European history between the fall of Rome, around 476 A.D., and the beginning of the Renaissance, around 1450 A.D.
2. The art of dying.
3. A deadly bacterial disease of the lymphatic system, often marked by buboes, which are visibly swollen lymph nodes.
5. A destructive, swiftly spreading disease, such as the bubonic plague.
7. A district controlled by a feudal lord, usually consisting of a few farms, a village, a church and a manor house.
9. Prejudice against or persecution of Jews.
10. The scientific name for the type of bacteria that causes plague.
11. The act of subduing one's passions and appetites by performing penance.
14. Paralysis in any part of the body; it is sometimes accompanied by involuntary shaking.
16. An epidemic of disease which extends over a large geographic area.