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• Middle Ages
  ...High], and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Middle_Ages Late Middle Ages]. ...vering much of Western Europe; the Carolingian Empire in the later 8th and early 9th century, when it succumbed to the pressures of internal civil wars comb
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• Potestas
  == Evolution of the concept in the Middle Ages == ...se, but much of Roman political theory remained. During the early [[Middle Ages]] the Christian world was ruled in theory by the Pope and the [[Holy Roman
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• Epoch IV
  ...i/Timeline_of_the_Middle_Ages#Early_Middle_Ages Early, High, & Late Middle Ages Timeline]''''' ..._to_4th_century_CE Timeline of Religion (antiquity through middle ages and early modern)]'''''
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• Primary Corpus
  ...ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_prehistory#Middle_Paleolithic Middle Paleolithic Timeline]''''' ...rg/wiki/Timeline_of_ancient_history#Bronze_Age_and_Early_Iron_Age Bronze & Early Iron Age Timeline]'''''
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• Modern
  ...er broken down into the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_period early modern period] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_modern_period la ...le of Bosworth in 1485. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_Europe Early modern European history] is usually seen to span from the turn of the 15th
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• Prodigies
  ...rg/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [[Latin]] prodigium omen, monster, from pro-, prod- + -igium ...gies is determined by the [[degree]] of their talent [[relative]] to their ages. Examples of particularly extreme child prodigies would include [https://en
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• Ancient
  ...rg/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ancien, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar [[Latin]] anteanus, from La *2 : of or relating to a remote period, to a time early in [[history]], or to those living in such a period or [[time]]; especially
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• Scriptorium
  ...person".<ref>Geo. Haven Putnam, ''Books and their Makers During the Middle Ages'', (New York: Hillary House, 1962), 405 ...trans. Gorman, pp. 20-55. Surveys regional scriptoria in the early Middle Ages.
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• Tithe
  ..._OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] teogotha tenth; akin to Middle Low German tegede tenth, Old English tīen ten — more at [[ten]] ...dating back to the Early [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages Middle Ages]. The non-[[economic]], [[juridical]] sense of "tithing" is in [[reference
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• Knight
  ...utch ''knecht'', Danish ''knægt'', Swedish ''knekt'', Norwegian ''knekt'', Middle High German ''kneht'', all meaning "boy, [[youth]], lad", as well as German *1:a. (in the [[Middle Ages]]) a man who served his [[sovereign]] or lord as a mounted [[soldier]] in [
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• Ransom
  ...rg/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''ransoun'', from Anglo-French ''rançun'', from [[Latin]] ''[[red ...ure their release, or it can refer to the sum of [[money]] involved. In an early German law, a similar concept was called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wer
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• Serfdom
  ...tiquity] and most of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages Middle Ages], what we now call serfs were usually designated in [[Latin]] as coloni (si ...ily during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Middle_Ages High Middle Ages] in Europe. Serfdom was the enforced labour of serfs on the fields of lando
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• Vigil
  ...rg/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] vigile, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin & [[Latin]]; Late Latin ...of liturgical feasts begins on the evening before the holy day because the Early Church continued the [[Jewish]] [[practice]] of beginnnig the day at sunset
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• Cartoon
  ...efer to [[humorous]] illustrations in magazines and newspapers, and in the early 20th century and onward it referred to comic strips and [[animated]] [[film
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• Assignment
  ...wiki/Soviet_Union Russian] counterparts. By the end of the Cold War in the early [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990's 1990]s, the [[consensus]] in American ...n standardized tests, but that kids who do 60 to 90 minutes of homework in middle school and more than 2 hours in high school actually score worse.[https://e
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• Apprentice
  ...rg/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] aprentis, from Anglo-French apprentiz, from aprendre to [[learn]], ...] a new [[generation]] of practitioners of a [[skill]]. Apprentices (or in early modern usage "prentices") or protégés build their [[careers]] from appre
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• Actors
  The gender-neutral term "player" was common in [[film]] in the early days of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code M ..., and in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Middle_Ages Early Middle Ages] travelling acting troupes were often viewed with distrust. In many parts o
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• Caveman
  ...people]], originates out of [[assumptions]] about the association between early humans and caves, most clearly [[demonstrated]] in cave painting or bench m ...eds of years. During the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages Middle Ages], these creatures were generally depicted in [[art]] and [[literature]] as
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• Codex
  ...h the rise of [[Christianity]], which adopted the format for the [[Bible]] early on. First described by the 1st-century AD Roman poet [https://en.wikipedia. ...-written) books which were produced from Late antiquity until the [[Middle Ages]]. The [[scholarly]] [[study]] of these manuscripts from the point of view
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• University
  ...d religious authorities, spreading from the Atlantic to Russia. During the ages of exploration Spain and Portugal established universities in their New Wor ...and ceremonies provide an impression of unbroken [[tradition]] through the ages, as do the forms of teaching. But the conservatism of universities is merel
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