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The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources edited by Dr. Andrea R. Harbin.
A coin first struck at Byzantium (in other words Constantinople). There were gold bezants, varying in value between a sovereign and a half-sovereign, and silver ones worth from a florin to a shilling.
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# A small spiked device, intended to impede horses.
# Small metal ball with four (angled) projecting spikes placed on battlefield to maim horses.
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# Smallholding cottager of lesser standing than villein but better off than cottar.
# Usually, in rural contexts, a relatively humble peasant occupying a cottage with little or no arable attached.
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A procedure by which a person having no legal concern in a suit promises aid or influence to one party in return for a share of the matter in the suit, if successful; usually linked with maintenance.
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# A military rank, superior to that of a knight. Bannerets bore square banners, rather than long pennons.
# Lord entitled to have a banner, and drawing higher wages of war than an ordinary knight.
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# Lower sloping surface of a wall linking a wide base to a narrower upper structure.
# A sloping part of a curtain wall. The sharp angle at the base of all walls and towers along their exterior surface.
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Conflict between kin-groups, arising from an attempt to exact vengeance or compensation for a previous injury.
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# A main division of the army; usually there were three or four battles in an army
# A division of troops commanded by a peer or knight banneret. .
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