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Chapel of ease

History; Medieval

A subsidiary chapel of a mother church founded to ease the difficulties of parishioners in worshipping, especially where the parish was very large.

Cabacete

History; Medieval

A tall narrow helmet, with a turned-down brim which was drawn up to a point at front and rear, worn by Spanish infantry in the late fifteenth century.

A member of a dualistic, heretical sect that arose in Bulgaria in the mid-tenth century and spread beyond Bulgaria into the Byzantine Empire, and from there along the Mediterranean to the south of ...

Benefice

History; Medieval

# A grant of land given to a member of the aristocracy, a bishop, or a monastery, for limited or hereditary use in exchange for services. In ecclesiastic terms, a benefice is a church office that ...

Bezant

History; Medieval

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 ...

Caltrop

History; Medieval

# A small spiked device, intended to impede horses. # Small metal ball with four (angled) projecting spikes placed on battlefield to maim horses.

Bordar

History; Medieval

# 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.