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| The period of European history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West (5th century) to the fall of Constantinople (1453), or, more narrowly, from c.1100 to 1453 |
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| A community of people, esp. monks or nuns, living under religious vows |
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| Denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis |
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| a member of the ancient Germanic peoples who spread from the Rhine into the Roman Empire in the 4th century |
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| 742–814), king of the Franks 768–814 and Holy Roman Emperor (as Charles I) 800–814; Latin name Carolus Magnus; known as Charles the Great. As the first Holy Roman emperor, Charlemagne promoted the arts and education, and his court became the cultural center of the Carolingian Renaissance |
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| A holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance |
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| A man who served his sovereign or lord as a mounted soldier in armor. A man raised by a sovereign to honorable military rank after service as a page and squire. |
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| An agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate |
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| A Lord's Estate in Federal Europe. |
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| A family's payment of one-tenth of it's income to a church. |
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