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| Balista, petraria, trebuchet |
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| names for catapult devices used to attack castle walls. |
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| screen-like, flexible armor made out of little interlocked rings of metal |
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| a large horse capable of carrying the weight of a knight in full armor, from which our percherons and Belgian draft horses are descended. |
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| going over the walls of a castle by means of ladders |
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| : a social system of rights and duties based on land tenure and personal relationships in which land (and to a much lesser degree other sources of income) is held in fief by vassals from lords to whom they owe specific services. |
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| (as in the expression “held in fief”) tenure of land subject to feudal obligations. |
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| (pronounced ‘just’): combat with lances between two mounted knights |
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| a tower-like structure within the precincts of a castle serving as a last refuge in the event that the walls of the castle were breached. It was also used as a prison and storehouse. |
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| medieval farm house with a single main floor in which people and animals shared the same major space and heated by a central fire under a smoke hole. |
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| A lesser form of the castle hall belonging to the land owner or lord and farmed by tenants who owed him rents and services. |
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| : In flat country the mottle or hillock was artificially raised and surrounded by a ditch formed by excavation. The bailey (or wall) contained barns, and sheds for livestock. |
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| a wood or metal grill with spikes which could be dropped from the entrance tower of a castle to block entry |
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| geometry, astronomy, music, arithmetic |
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| system of planting in which peas and beans were planted in the furrow and grain on the ridge to keep the grain free of standing water which might kill it. |
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| terms, respectively, for the little farmyard (toft) and the garden plot (croft) of a peasant |
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