Medieval Europe Final exam vocabulary

Question 1

Alecaster

Answer 1

manorial Court officer overseeing brewers for quality control

Question 2

Advowson

Answer 2

Right to appoint someone to an ecclesiastical office

Question 3

Anchorhold

Answer 3

Cell for Achoress/Achorite devoted to prayer and study

Question 4

Ancient demesne

Answer 4

Manor owned directly by william I in 1086

Question 5

Assart

Answer 5

Former wasteland turned into cultivated land

Question 6

Bailiff

Answer 6

Chief administrative officer of a manor

Question 7

Boon-work

Answer 7

Extra harvest labor by serfs beyond regular work

Question 8

Brewster

Answer 8

Female brewer in medieval England

Question 9

By-Laws

Answer 9

Community rules set by manorial court tenants

Question 10

Chancel

Answer 10

Church sanctuary where Mass is Celebrated

Question 11

Chevage

Answer 11

head tax levied on tenants, often paid by serfs

Question 12

Churching

Answer 12

Religious Ceremony for new mothers after birth

Question 13

Common Lands

Answer 13

Shared lands for grazing by manor tenants

Question 14

Coverture

Answer 14

Legal state of wives covered by husbands

Question 15

Cuckingstool

Answer 15

Punishment set, often for women like brewsters

Question 16

Deacon

Answer 16

Cleric below a priest, assisting in religious duties

Question 17

Demesne

Answer 17

Manorial land reserved for direct use

Question 18

Diocese

Answer 18

District administered by a bishop

Question 19

dower

Answer 19

lands set aside for a widow after her husband’s death

Question 20

dowry

Answer 20

payment from the brides family to the husband at marriage

Question 21

fallow

Answer 21

unplanted land left to reign productivity

Question 22

Domesday book

Answer 22

Survey of english lands, landowners, and tenants in 1086

Question 23

Feudalism

Answer 23

political, military, and social system of medieval elite

Question 24

Friar

Answer 24

Member of mendicant religious orders like dominicans

Question 25

Gleaning

Answer 25

Collecting missed grain in harvested fields

Question 26

Hayward

Answer 26

Supervisor of manor fields and serf work

Question 27

heriot

Answer 27

Payment to manor when an unfree tenant dies

Question 28

Hue and cry

Answer 28

Loud shout to catch wrongdoers at a crime scene

Question 29

Jury

Answer 29

Panel of jurors reporting on misdoings or judging cases

Question 30

Leyrwite

Answer 30

payment to manor from young women of serf status for sex outside of marriage

Question 31

Manor

Answer 31

Estate worked by peasants foe owners profit

Question 32

manorialism

Answer 32

Economic system where serfs and free peasants lived in manors

Question 33

Merchant

Answer 33

Payment made to manor for serfs marriage

Question 34

Mortuary

Answer 34

Payment to parish priest upon someone's death

Question 35

Nave

Answer 35

main area of church for congregation

Question 36

Oblation

Answer 36

Payment to a priest for services to parishioner

Question 37

Open fields

Answer 37

Fields surrounding villages with tenant strips

Question 38

Parish

Answer 38

Smallest unit in the ecclesiastical system

Question 39

parish clerk

Answer 39

Assists parish priest in duties, especially reading and writing

Question 40

Pledge

Answer 40

Person guaranteeing payment for obligation fulfillment

Question 41

Pound sterling

Answer 41

Monetary unit worth 240 pence or 20 shillings

Question 42

Pence

Answer 42

Plural of penny, essential medieval coin

Question 43

Rector

Answer 43

Priest attending to parish religious needs

Question 44

Reeve

Answer 44

Officer managing daily manor business

Question 45

Rod

Answer 45

Small land measurement four rods make an acre

Question 46

Serf

Answer 46

Unfree peasants tied to manor, work, and fees

Question 47

SingleWomen

Answer 47

medieval term for an unmarried women

Question 48

Strip

Answer 48

Narrow arable land area demarcated in open fields

Question 49

Tallage

Answer 49

tax on serfs levied by manorial lords

Question 50

three field system

Answer 50

farming system rotating crops between three fields

Question 51

Three orders

Answer 51

Medieval clergy idea of society's three ranked groups

Question 52

Tithe

Answer 52

Obligatory payment to the church of 10% of profits

Question 53

Tithing

Answer 53

Group responsible for behavior, accused member judgement

Question 54

Tithingman

Answer 54

In charge of tithing, elected annually

Question 55

Two field system

Answer 55

Farming system that rotates crops between two fields

Question 56

vicar

Answer 56

priest standing in for absent rector

Question 57

View of frankpledge

Answer 57

Court ensuring males over 12 enrolled in tithing

Question 58

Villein

Answer 58

English term for serf

Question 59

Week-work

Answer 59

Serfs obligation to work on manorial demesne weekly