Medieval Wordbook: More Than 4,000 Terms and Expressions from Medieval CultureThis workbook defines some 4000 medieval terms and expressions from art and architecture, sex and science, costume and cookery, literature and magic, liturgy and astrology, and warfare and ceremony. A companion to medieval culture; the book also included geneal concepts central to medieval thinking, such as allegory, polyphony, and numerology. Entries include: blackmail: Scottish for rent or tribute paid in grain or meat, as opposed to "white mail" paid in sliver or coin; corduroy: from the French corde du roi, "cloth of the king," is a ridged silk or cotton fabric; gossip: from the Anglo-Saxon god sib, "sister in God," a friendly woman companion; and upper crust: the top crust cut from round loaves of bread presented to the noble guest at feasts.-- |
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ALCHEMY ALLEGORY Anglo-Saxon animal architecture ARMOR ARMS astrological banquet beast BISHOP bread called CANON CANONICAL HOURS Canterbury Tales carved CATHEDRAL celebrated century ceremonial CHANSON DE GESTES CHANT Chaucer's Christ church color court COURTLY LOVE cross dance death decorative depicted derived device divine ecclesiastical elaborate embellished England English ESTATE IN LAND FABLIAUX fabric festival feudal fifteenth fifteenth-century FOUR FOUR HUMORS fourteenth-century French FRIARS garment German glass gold Greek GREGORIAN CHANT headdress Hebrew heraldic HERALDRY holy horn human imitation important instrument Italian Jesus Jewish JEWISH BADGE King knight land Latin liturgical MANUSCRIPT MASS medieval melody ment metal MINNESINGERS MONASTERY MORRIS DANCE musical ornamental painting physicians polyphonic popular prayer Provençal religious Roman Saint sculpture secular seven sexual song spiritual stone sung surface symbolic technique TENURE thirteenth thirteenth-century tion TROUBADOUR TROUVÈRES twelfth twelfth-century usually Virgin Mary wall wine woman women wood words worn ZODIAC