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The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources edited by Dr. Andrea R. Harbin.
A vet; probably derived from Ibn el-Baithar, the Arab pharmacist (d. 1248).
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An official of the ecclesiastical courts, who summoned people to appear before them.
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The doctrine that the authority of Jesus was passed down in an unbroken line from the apostles to their successors, the bishops.
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Name for the dualist heretics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; derived from the city of Albi in southern France, one of their centres of influence; also called Cathars.
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Superior of a monastery or nunnery; derived from Syriac word abba, "father".
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A day's ploughing for one plough team. Now 200 X 22 yards. 120 were reckoned to be the average which would support one family, but the acre varied in real size according to local conditions and soil.
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Plot of land to be cultivated by compulsory service of the tenant for the benefit of the master.
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