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The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources edited by Dr. Andrea R. Harbin.
A church officer consecrated to the highest of the holy orders; usually the head of a diocese with spiritual authority over the other clergy and laity in that diocese; believed to be a successor to the apostles; word derived from the Greek episcopos, "overseer".
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# A privilege enjoyed by members of the clergy, including tonsured clerks, placing them beyond the jurisdiction of secular courts.
# The legal privilege of those who could prove they were clergy to be tried and sentenced for felonies in the church courts and punished by the church.
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# An officer of the royal household. He is responsible for the Chamber, meaning that he controls access to the person of the King. He is also responsible for administration of the household and the privates estates of the king. The Chamberlain is one of the four main officers of the court, the others being the Chancellor, the Justiciar, and the Treasurer.
# Household official in charge of the lord's chamber.
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A breed of horse from "Barbary", or Berber, coast of the Mediterranean (Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco), and rather smaller than the Arabian. The term equus de Barbaria occurs in letters of the Emperor Frederick II in 1240. In England the term "Barb" is first found in 1636.
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Keeper of archives and/or general secretary (or chancellor) of a bishop in the Orthodox Church.
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A pair meeting (or nearly) at right angles on the corner of a building.
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Accounting office for French royal finances at Paris or for Norman ducal finances at Caen.
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A Scandinavian art style named from objects found in the ship burial in a great barrow at Boore in Vestfold in Norway and datable to the late ninth and early tenth centuries. It is most commonly found on small cast cooper-alloy objects and is typified by a ring chain pattern made up of a double ribbon plait forming a symmetrical interlace. Each intersection is bound by a circle which surrounds a hollow-sided lozenge. Borre-style objects were not necessarily imported and were made in the north of England, for example at York.
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# Globular ornament consisting of three-petalled flower enclosing a small ball.
# Ornament resembling a ball enclosed in a globular three-petalled flower; characteristic of the first quarter of the 14th century.
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