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