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The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources edited by Dr. Andrea R. Harbin.
View defended by Arius, a fourth-century priest in Alexandria, that Jesus was not the same as God, but was the greatest of all creatures; Arianism was the version of Christianity held by important Germanic kingdoms, including the Visigoths and the Lombards, between the fifth and seventh centuries.
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Derived from O. E. ealdorman and surviving in urban usage to describe the holder of a senior civic office. Two main usages are (I) the chief officer of a guild: occurs in the earlier Middle Ages and later in surviving merchant guilds; (II) the member of a town council, particularly an upper council: increasingly common in the later Middle Ages, probably under London influence.
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A high Catholic Church official, serving more-or-less as executive secretary to a bishop.
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Monastic house or estate dependent upon or subordinate to a continental, usually a Norman, monastery.
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A narrow vertical slit cut into a wall through which arrows could be fired from inside.
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1) Wall-walk, passage behind the parapet of a castle wall.
2) The patch along the top of a castle or town wall, providing access to any part of the wall circuit behind the cover of the parapet.
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Small rectangular pieces of embroidered stuff, used as ornaments to the alb and amice.
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