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| the time in European history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance (from about 500 a.d. to about 1350): sometimes restricted to the later part of this period (after 1100) and sometimes extended to 1450 or 1500. |
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| the community of persons living in such a place. |
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| of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred. |
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| ?742--814 ad , king of the Franks (768--814) and, as Charles I, Holy Roman Emperor (800--814). He conquered the Lombards (774), the Saxons (772--804), and the Avars (791--799). He instituted many judicial and ecclesiastical reforms, and promoted commerce and agriculture throughout his empire, which extended from the Ebro to the Elbe. Under Alcuin his court at Aachen became the centre of a revival of learning |
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| a person holding some similar relation to a superior; a subject, subordinate, follower, or retainer. |
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| a mounted soldier serving under a feudal superior in the Middle Ages. |
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| the mansion of a lord with the land belonging to it. |
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| a tenth part or any indefinitely small part of anything. |
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