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Clovis
The First King o the Franks to unite all of the Frankish Tribes under one ruler.
St. Benedict
Founder of the Benedictine Monastery at Monte Cassino and father of Western Monaticism
Crusades
The Crusades were a series of religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church in the medieval period.
Charlamagne
King o the Franks, Lomards, and Emporer of the Romans. Expanded Frankish state that Charlemagne founded is called the Carolingian Empire
Hegira
Muhammad’s departure from Mecca to Medina in AD 622, prompted by the opposition of the merchants of Mecca and marking the consolidation of the first Muslim community.
Feudal System
Feudalism was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries
Manorial System
Manorialism was an essential element of feudal society. It was the organizing principle of rural economy that originated in the Roman villa system of the Late Roman Empire, and was widely practiced in medieval western and parts of central Europe.
Cluny Monastic Reforms
The Cluniac Reforms (also called the Benedictine Reform) were a series of changes within medieval monasticism of the Western Church focused on restoring the traditional monastic life, encouraging art, and caring for the poor.
Cistercian order
A Cistercian is a member of the Cistercian Order, a religious order of monks and nuns.
Chivalric Romance
As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Gothic Catherdreals
Gothic architecture is an architectural style that flourished in Europe during the High and Late Middle Ages. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture.
Mongols
The Mongols are an East-Central Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia and China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. They also live as minorities in other regions of China, as well as in Russia.
Magna Carta
Following further discussions with the barons and clerics led by Archbishop Langton, King John granted the Charter of Liberties, subsequently known as Magna Carta
Franciscan Friars
The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders within the Catholic Church, founded in 1209 by Francis of Assisi.
Scholastic Philosophy
Scholasticism is a method of critical thought which dominated teaching by the academics of medieval universities in Europe from about 1100 to 1700
Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas Aquinas OP was an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. He was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism
Papal Inquisition
The Medieval Inquisition was a series of Inquisitions from around 1184, including the Episcopal Inquisition and later the Papal Inquisition.
Dante Allegheri
Durante degli Alighieri, simply called Dante, was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages.
Mercantilism
Mercantilism was a type of national economic policy designed to maximize the trade of a nation and especially to maximize the accumulation of gold and silver.
Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system and an ideology based on private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit
Lay Investiture
The Investiture Controversy or Investiture Contest was a conflict between church and state in medieval Europe. In the 11th and 12th centuries, a series of popes challenged the authority of European monarchies.
Avignon Papacy
The Avignon Papacy was the period from 1309 to 1376 during which seven successive popes resided in Avignon rather than in Rome. The situation arose from the conflict between the papacy and the French crown
Anti-Semitism
Antisemitism is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is generally considered to be a form of racism.
Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, known as Erasmus or Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian. Erasmus was a classical scholar and wrote in a pure Latin style.