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Avignon
City in France where the pope temporarily moved his residence for 69 years
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Bubonic Plague
a deadly disease that spread across Asia and Europe in the mid-14th century, killing millions of people
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Burgher
A medieval town dweller.
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Crusade
one of the expeditions in which medieval Christian warriors sought to recover control of the Holy Land from the Muslims
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Dante Aligheri
Italian author who wrote the Divine Comedy
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
Former queen of France, who married an English king bringing French lands under control of the English crown
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Geoffrey Chaucer
English author of the Canterbury Tales
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Gothic
relating to a style of church architecture that developed in medieval Europe, featuring ribbed vaults, stained glass windows, flying buttresses, pointed arches, and tall spires
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Guild
a medieval association of people working at the same occupation, which controlled its members' wages and prices
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Henry II
English king who added French lands to English holdings by marrying Eleanor of Aquitaine
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Hundred years' War
A conflict in which England and France battled on French soil on and off from 1337 A.D. to 1453 A.D.
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Jan Hus
Bohemian scholar who taught that the Bible was the final authority for Christian life
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Joan of Arc
peasant girl who led french army to victory at Orleans
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John Wycliffe
English scholar who argued that the Bible was the final authority for Christian life
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Louis IX
Grandson of Phillip II, who created the French Appeals court
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Magna Carta
"Great Charter"- a document guaranteeing basic political rights in England, drawn up by nobles and approved by King John in A.D. 1215
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Phillip II
One of the most powerful Capetian kings, tripled lands and made a stronger central government
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Richard the Lion-Hearted
An English king who fought in the third crusade and reached a compromise whith the Muslims in regards to the Holy Land
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Saladin
Famous Muslim leader of the 1100s, who fought in the crusades
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St.Francis of Assisi
An Italian who founded an order of friars known as Franciscans, This individual treated all creatures, including animals, as if they were spiritual brothers and sisters
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Thomas Aquinas
Scholar who argued that the most basic religious truths could be proved by sound reasoning
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Three-field-system
a system of farming developed in medieval Europe, in which farm land was divided into three fields of equal size and each of these was successively planted with a winter crop, planted with a spring crop, and left unplanted.
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Urban II
Pope who called for the first "Holy war", or Crusade
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Vernacular
The everyday language of people in a region or country
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Willian the Conqueror
Duke of Normandy who invaded England in 1066 A.D. and claimed the English crown
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