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glossary Flashcards

1
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What is propaganda?

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The use of media to influence opinion.

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What are court intellectuals?

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Educated people Alfred brings to court.

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What does vernacular mean?

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Language spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.

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What is a dynastic crisis?

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Feud over who becomes King.

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What is a client king?

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Someone manipulated into governing.

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What is a relic?

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Remaining of body parts.

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What is migration?

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Movement of people to a new area or country in order to find work or better living conditions.

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What is material culture?

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The physical evidence of a culture in the objects and architecture they make, or have made.

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What is a charter?

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Documents specifying the granting of land or privileges to certain individuals.

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What is primogeniture?

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Right of the first born son to automatically inherit.

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What is witangamot?

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Assembly of ealdormen who get together to confirm a King.

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What does secular mean?

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Non-religious.

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What is harrying?

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Continuously raiding.

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What does Carolingian mean?

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Relating to the Frankish dynasty that ruled in Western Europe from 750 to 987

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Who is Cenwald?

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Bishop of Worcester from 928/9 from Mercia and served as a lead translator/scholar in Aethelstan’s court

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What does Books of Confraternity mean?

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Books placed in important monasteries for pilgrims to sign to show they respected the brotherhood of Christianity and were part of a Christian world

17
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What does diversify mean?

A

Make or become more diverse or varied

18
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What does shipfyrd mean?

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A naval force or militaria, naval fleet, navy that is recruited separately from normal fyrd

19
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What is a Hundred?

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A subdivision of a county or a shire, having it’s own court

20
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What does igniminious mean?
Who does it come from and when?

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Disgraceful
Frank Stenton 1943

21
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What is a Thrall?

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Temporary slave, with some rights

22
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What is a jarl?

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Viking equivalent of ealdormen

23
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What is regionism?

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Being loyal to a specific area

24
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What does ecclesiastical mean?

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Religious matters

25
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What is the difference between a blood and dynastic feud?

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Dynastic-feud over succession
Blood- honour based feud (crimes against families)

26
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What is a Pacificus?

A

Peacemaker

27
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What is a pestilence?

A

Plague/sickness

28
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What is shipsoke?

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Reformed name for shipfyrd=naval force

29
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What is a matyr?

A

Person killed because of their religious beliefs

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