The Middle Ages

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Across
  1. 4. A man who has dedicated his life to living in service of the Church and God's spiritual kingdom
  2. 5. A woman within the Church who has dedicated to living her life as the "bride of Christ", and is meant to be a living example of the relationship between Jesus and the Church
  3. 7. The disease which almost killed Justinian, and certainly caused him to suffer from the effects of brain injury
  4. 11. A Christian community of monks that is intended to be an example of Christian life
  5. 13. The journey on which Mohammed led his followers from Mecca to Medina
  6. 15. Has a trunk
  7. 17. the practice of secretly obtaining information, typically by governments to obtain political and military information
  8. 19. In, of or by the world (outside of the Church)
  9. 20. A measure of the intensity and tolerance of a religious group
  10. 21. Large marsupial
  11. 25. A loose alliance of city-states or colonies
  12. 27. Man's best friend
  13. 28. The period of history, after the fall of Western Rome, which Renaissance scholars argued was blocked from The Light by the Shadow of Rome and the Rise of Islam
  14. 29. Flying mammal
Down
  1. 1. The Byzantine Emperor during the Nike revolt
  2. 2. The sea-faring barbarians from Scandinavia who began attacking and raiding coastal villages of Northern Europe during the 8th Century A.D.
  3. 3. The political "state" that was intended to be the physical representation of God's spiritual Christian kingdom on earth
  4. 6. The king of the Franks
  5. 8. The Pope known as the "founder" of the medieval papacy
  6. 9. The last Emperor of Western Rome
  7. 10. Likes to chase mice
  8. 12. The name given to Charles Martel, by his troops, after the Battle of Tours in 732 A.D.
  9. 14. The location of the first confirmed attack on a Catholic monastery by Vikings
  10. 16. The former "dancer" who married Justinian
  11. 18. The king generally considered to have been the greatest European ruler of the Middle Ages
  12. 22. The Germanic king who defended the Pope and was the second ruler granted the title of "Emperor" by the Church
  13. 23. The largest barbarian tribe in the West after the fall of the Western Roman Empire
  14. 24. a group of volunteer citizen soldiers
  15. 26. The office of the leader of the Roman Catholic Church