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| the erA IN EUROPEAN HISTORY THAT FOLLOWED THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE LASTING FROM ABOUT 500 TO 1500 |
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| a religious community of men who have given up their possession to devote themselves to a life of prayer and wordship |
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| concered with wordly rather than spiritural matters |
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| a germanic people who settled in the roman province of gaul and established a great empire during the middle ages |
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| (in the feudal system) a person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant. |
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| (in Europe in the Middle Ages) a man, usually of noble birth, who after an apprenticeship as page and squire was raised to honorable military rank and bound to chivalrous conduct |
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a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
a slave. |
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| (in England) a landed estate or territorial unit, originally of the nature of a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and of lands within which he has the right to exercise certain privileges, exact cERTAIN FEES |
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| Sometimes, tithes. the tenth part of agricultural produce or personal income set apart as an offering to God or for works of mercy, or the same amount regarded as an obligation or tax for the support of the church, priesthood, or the like. |
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