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🏰European History – 1000 to 1500
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235 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your European History – 1000 to 1500 exam

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12th-century renaissance

A

Agricultural Surplus
Albertus Magnus
Albigensian Crusade
Anarchy of the 12th Century
Ancien régime
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Anointing of the Sick
Anselm of Canterbury
Anti-clericalism
Apocalyptic Beliefs
Apostolic poverty
Artisan production
Artistic sources
Austria

B

Babylonian Captivity
Baltic Region
Barons' wars
Battle of Agincourt
Battle of Arsuf
Battle of Crécy
Battle of Dorylaeum
Battle of Hattin
Battle of Poitiers
Battle of Sluys
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Black Prince
Boccaccio's Decameron
Book of Kells
Brethren of the Common Life

C

Canon law
Capetian Dynasty
Casa da india
Centralization of power
Centralization of Royal Power
Chambre des comptes
Chanson de Roland
Charter of the Forest
Chivalric romance
Chrétien de troyes
Ciompi revolt
Cistercian Expansion
Cistercians
Classical antiquity
Cluniac Reform
Cluny Abbey
Corpus Juris Civilis
Cortes
Council of Clermont
Council of Constance
Council of Pisa
County of Edessa
County of Tripoli
Courtly love
Courtly romance
Crimea
Crisis of the Late Middle Ages
Crusader castles
Crusades and Trade Expansion
Cult of saints
Curia regis
Currency devaluation

D

Dance of Death
Danelaw
Danse macabre
Danube River
Decameron
Decretum Gratiani
Desiderius Erasmus
Devotional practices
Dialectical method
Dictatus Papae
Didactic literature
Discourses on Livy
Dismounted men-at-arms