amicitia (L "friendship," "love," "affection")
Alfred "the Great" -- Anglo-Saxons -- Northumbria -- Mercia -- Wessex
Avars -- Bulgars -- khagan (cf. Turkic khan) -- Slavs -- Magyars
"the Venerable" Bede -- The Ecclesiastical History of the English Peoples -- Alcuin
Beowulf -- Geats -- Hrothgar -- Wealhtheow -- Freawaru -- Unferth -- Grendel -- Heorot -- Hygelac -- Hygd -- Wiglaf
Clovis -- Clothild -- Æðelberht -- Bertha
convent (= female monastery) -- nun -- abbess
Cyril & Methodius -- Cyrillic alphabet -- Moravia -- Bulgars -- Khan Boris
Danube (river)
economic ideal types (cf. Week IV): market (impersonal) -- redistributive (political) -- reciprocal / gift exchange (social)
episcopa / episcopessa (L "bishop's wife"; may sometimes even mean "female bishop")
fealty (< L fides, cf. Week IV) -- homage
fief (rhymes w/ "thief"; L feudum) -- feudal -- feudalism (cf. lord, vassal, fealty, homage)
Frisia -- Dorestad -- Hedeby
Iceland -- Greenland -- Vínland (= Norse settlement in North America) -- Danelaw -- Rus
Île de France
knight
lord -- vassal -- vassalage -- fealty (cf. fief, feudalism)
Louis I "the Pious" -- Lothar -- Louis "the German" -- Charles "the Bald" -- Charles "the Simple [or: Straightforward]"
Normans -- Normandy
Ottonians -- Otto I, II & III -- Gerbert / Sylvester II -- Salians
St Pátraic (Patrick) -- St Columcille
Peace of God -- Truce of God -- castellan
peace-weaver (= OE metaphor for woman, lady)
penitential -- Theodore
primogeniture ("inheritance by the firstborn") -- patrilineal inheritance ("inheritance through the father's line")
ring-giver / ring-breaker (= OE metaphor for generous lord, king) -- bullion
Rhône (river)
Talmud -- Mishnah -- responsum (pl. responsa; cf. rescript, Week IV) -- Mikveh (pl. Mikvot, Hb "purificatory bath") -- Sh'ma ("Hear, O Israel"; Jewish equivalent of the Christian Creed, Muslim Shahada)
Treaty of Verdun
vikings (more properly, "Norse"; cf. ON víkingr, "pirate") -- Magyars -- Saracens
Virgin Mary -- Mariology