Words Week X
Feudalism
"THE
MAN ON HORSEBACK" CHEVALIER
(RITTER / CNIHT)
FIEF / (KNIGHT'S) FEE
VASSAL
SERF/DOM
SLAVERY SERVITUDE
(FEUDAL) INCIDENTS
COUNSEL & AID RELIEF
WARDSHIP MARRIAGE
HOMAGE (from HOMO = MAN, ??VASSAL)
TENSERIE
THE THREE ORDERS: THOSE WHO PRAY/FIGHT/WORK FOR ALL or
ORATORES, BELLATORES. LABORATORES
HORIZONTAL GROUPINGS: KINSHIP
COMMUNE
GILD
AMICITIA (Friendship, Alliance)
SEIZIN
ESCHEAT
CHAMPART
Technology
RATIONALITY
(Remember RATIO = reason, cause)
ADAM SMITH & his RATIONAL ECONOMIC MAN
MARY ROSE
THE ST. GALL PLAN
OPUS DEI (= God's Work, is the LITURGY)
CHOIR MONKS (who sang psalms & were "full" monks)
NOVICES
SICK MONKS IN INFIRMARY
BAY (architectural term from Old French word for "yawn",
'gape", ie the space between) NAVE (from
Lat. "navis", ship)
ADMIRATIO (Wonder?)
SCIENTIA (much more than science, for which ARS is sometimes a better
word!)
CAESARIUS OF HEISTERBACH
ROGER BACON "CHEW MEAT"
AUCTORITAS / AUTHORITY
IMITATIO
MIRARI / RIMARI (meaning probe, pry into)
PROBARE, PROBATIO (Test)
WILLIAM DE
RUYBRUK
ACCOUNT
OF THE MONGOLS
GERALD OF
WALES
"SOTELTES" (= subtleties, show-off dishes)
AELFRIC OF EYNSHAM
WUNDRA
WILLIAM OF NEWBURGH
GEOFFREEY OF MONMOUTH & his HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF BRITAIN (first
important text on Arthur)
UTILITAS
"OCCULTA RATIONEM" (secret, hidden purpose, as in RATIO)
SECONDARY ELABORATION