Middle Ages Vocab

Heretic

someone who expresses beliefs that oppose church teachings or established views

Accrue

to be added or gained; to accumulate

Courtliness

polite, elegant manners; refined

Malady

a disease or disorder; an ailment

Avarice

greed

Sovereignty

rule or power

Temporal

of material world; not eternal

Parallelism

use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or equal in importance

Guile

clever trickery; deceit

Ballad

a narrative poem that was orignally intended to be sung

Refrain

part of stanza that are repeated regulary, sometimes with changes

Narrative

writing that is primarly concerned with relating an event or a series of events