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Anglo-Saxon period
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449-1066
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Medieval Period
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1066-1485
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Renaissance
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1485-1660
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Romantic Age
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1798-1832
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Victorian Age
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1832-1900
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Modern Age
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1900-present
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Norman Conquest
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1066
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the Crusades
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1096-1270
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murder of Thomas a Becket
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1170
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Magna Carta signed
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1215
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Hundred Years; War with France
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1337-1453
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William Chaucer's dates
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1340?-1400
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Wars of the Roses
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1455-1485
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Caxtons printing press
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1476
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describe the rhyme of Anglo-Saxon poetry:
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they do not rhyme
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how many beats per line in anglo-saxon poetry
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4 beats
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the number of beats or accented syllables determine the...
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rhythm
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the number of _________ _________ in a line may vary
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unaccented syllables
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each line has a ________ after then _______ beat thus _____ the line ____ ____ _____.
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caesura after the second beat thus dividing the line into two halves
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one or more accented syllables in the first half almost always _________ with one or more accented syllables in the second half
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alliterate
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kennings
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metaphorical phrases or compound words instead of the name of a person or thing (eg. Grendel is called the "shepherd of evil")
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Bayeux Tapestry: how high? how long? use for what (be specific) by who?
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work of embroidered linen twenty inches high and over two hundred feet long; commissioned in France to record the invasion and conquest of England
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formulated a code lof law
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Alfred the Great
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first historical record to be kept in English
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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founded the first English public schools
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Alfred the Great
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promoted use of written English rather than Latin
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Alfred the Great
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responsible for the initiation of the first historical record to be kept in English
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Alfred the Great (the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)
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A History of the English Curch and People
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Venerable Bede
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greatest prose writer and chornicler among the Anglo-
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Venerable Bede
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2 most important traditions of Anglo-Saxon poetry were:
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heroic tradition and elegiac tradition (which mourns the passing of earlier, better times)
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most important signel poem from 30,000 lines of Anglo-Saxon poetry
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Beowulf
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most famous missionary the established a monastery at Canterbury
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Saint Augustine
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became the first Archibishop of Canterubry
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Saint Augustine
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famous monastery for men and women
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Whitby Abbey
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leader of Whitby Abbey
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Abbess Hilda
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first English religious poety
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Caedmon
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called "Dances"
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the Viking or Norsemen
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poetry of this time was usually ________ rather than _______
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spoken rather than written
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fate
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wyrd
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Hrothgar
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Danish king in Beowulf
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Herot
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mead-hall/banqueting-hall built by Hrothgar in Beowulf
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Grendel
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the monster/demon/fiend in Beowulf
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Grendel's parents
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conceived by Cain, banished by God
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how long did Grendel bring grief to Hrothgar
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12 winters
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Grendel's grandpa
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Cain
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describe grendel's first attack
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snuck up on the army and took 30 men
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where did grendel live
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herot
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why was grendel scared or hrothgar
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because hrothgar was protected by God
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describe he term healfdane and who it applies to
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his describes hrohgar and means "half-dane"
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king of the geats
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higlac
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beowulf's feudal lord and his uncle
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higlac
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who came to the rescue
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14 of the braves and best of the Geats
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Wulfgar
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noble of Hrothgar
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some of beowulf's accomplishments:
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drove 5 great giants into chains, chased all of that race from the earth; killed sea monters one by one; now grendel
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beowulf's favor he asks for
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that he, alone and ith the help of his men, may purge all evil from the hall
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beowulf says he wont use ______ against grendel
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weapons
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Wayland
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blacksmith of the finest stuff
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Unferth
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Ecglaf's son
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Beowulf's last wish
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send the armor to higlac, "return the inheritance i had from hrethel, and he from wayland"
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who is jealous of beowful
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unferth
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who was in a swimming match with beowful
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brecca
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who won the sea swimming match
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brecca
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Unferth
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Ecglaf's son/Edgetho's great son
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how many sea monsters did beowulf kill
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9
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the bad deed of unferth
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murder of his brothers
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Welthow
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Hrothgar's queen
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what does grendel do before he attacks beowful
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devours a sleeping man
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how did grendel react to beowful
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he was scared
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what was the one thing that could destroy herot
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fire
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who kills beowful
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grendel's mother
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bede was described as "the
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venerable"
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the earliest english historian
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bede
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earliest important prose writer
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bede
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where did bede spend most of his life
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the monastery of jarrow
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history of the english church and people
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bede
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who translated the history of the english church and people into english
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alfred the great
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firs english religious poet
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caedmon
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where did caedmon go
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whitby abbey in northumbria
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who governed whitby abbey
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st. hilda
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what was caedmon's gift
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turn scripture and religious things to verse
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what book is "the seafarer" found in
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exeter book (1 of 4 anglo=saxon poetry collections to survive)
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seafarer talks about
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sea, land and feaures,
God |
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seafarer divisions
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weird and random capitals
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riddles from...
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exeter book
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riddle #1 is about a
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storm on land
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riddle #29 is about
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the moon and the sun
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riddle #32 is about
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a ship
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silvery creature; shining creature
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riddle #29
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battle of hastings
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harold (king of england) is defeated by william "the conqueror" (duke of normandy)
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feudalism
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complicated system of landholding
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who was apposed to the unity of a western europe's culture and beliefs
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the medieval church
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language of the church
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latin
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Europe's chief publisher, librarian and teacher
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the church
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first people to form guilds
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merchants
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"when william the conqueror had subdued the whole isla,d and by terrible examples had amed the minds of the rebels, he decided to place the government of the people on a written basis and subjct them to the rules of law"
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richard fitzneal (an english cleric)
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gave the firstborn son the exclusive right to inherit his father's titles, lands and estates
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law of promigeniture
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innocence or guilt decided by
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ordeals
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declared that the ordal system was "irrational"
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pope innocent III
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king john forced to sign what when
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the magna carta in 1215
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habeas corpus
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right not to be illegally detained
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first crsade proclaimed by
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pope urban II
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crusades beagin in high hope in a genuine desire to rescue what from who
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jerusalem from he turks
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chivalry
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knightly behavior
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hundred years war btw who
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france and england
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first of a series of plagues that killed more than 1/3 of the population
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the black death
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john wycliffe
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religious reformer
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civil war between the house of york (white rose) and the house of lancaster (red rose)
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war of the roses
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anglo-normans favored this form of literature
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romance
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Morte darthur
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sir thomas maolory
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3 medieval genres other than romanc
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autobiography, travl writing, and devotional writing
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first autobiography in the english language
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the book of margery kempe
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first truly great figure in english lit
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geoffrey chaucer
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first of the poker-faced humorists
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chaucer
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written by common people of early england and scotland
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ballads
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song not written down by recited and sing
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ballads
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most famous of the morality plays
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everyman
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england's first printer
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william caxton
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"the worshipful father and the first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our english"
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chaucer
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the father of english poetry
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chaucer
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father of english fiction
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chaucer
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page in a household closely associate with the court of king edward III
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chaucer
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soldier in france ransomed by the king
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chaucer
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served as Comptroller of Customs for the Port of London; member of parliament; just of the peace; clerk of the works at westminster abbey, the tower of london, and elsewhere
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chaucer
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the book of the duchess
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chaucer
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parliament of gowls
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chaucer
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troilus and criseyde
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chaucer
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the canterbury tales
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chacer
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frame story
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the canterbury tales
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decameron
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boccaccio
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first collectin of short stiories in english literautre
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the canterbury tales by chaucer
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buried in wewtminster abbey
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chaucer
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first english poet to be buried in Poets' corner
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chaucer
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what dialect is the first 42 lines of the Prologue written in?
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middle english
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canterbury tales prologue starts in what month
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april
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who were the pilgrims going to see
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thomas a becket, archbishop of canterbury, martyred in 1170
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chauncer first describes...
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the knight
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who is the squire related to?
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the knight (knight is his dad)
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another name for nun and her realy name
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prioress; madam eglantyne
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amor vincit omnia
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love conquers all
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who was with nun
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another nun (secretary of her cell) and 3 priests as well
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what was the friar's name
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hubert
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serjeant of law appeared to be with who?
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franklin (landowner)
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who was in the guild fraternity (5)
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haberdasher, dyer, carpenter, weaver, carpet-weaver
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what is the maudelayne
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the skipper's barge
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who was the plowman's brother
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the parson
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what is a reev
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a steward of a manor
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who was in the back of the group
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the reeve
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where is the hostelry called he Tabard
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southwark close beside The Bell
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who is most likely the host
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harry bailly
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who proposed the two stories each on the way back and home and the competition
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the host
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what decided who told a story first
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they drew "cuts" and whoever got the shortest was first
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who is the first to tell a story
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the knight with a love story with a chilvarlic theme
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pardoner's text:
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greed is the root of all evil
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how many main characters are in the pardoner's tale
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3 boys
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what happens to them
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they kill each other 2 stab one and drink poison and die themselves
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who do the boys in the pardoner's tale treat badly
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an old man
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what had they sworn to do before bein sidetracked? what side tracked them?
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catch death; gold they found; ironically they found Death
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describe how sir gawain and the green knight is divided
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its divided into strophes (instead of stanzas) which all end in a bob and wheel
bob-short 1-3 syllable line wheel-four rhymed lines |
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what season is it in sir gawain and the green knight
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christmas
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green knight lets gawain, the best of the knights, submit a blow as long as...
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he, the green knight gets to return the blow a year and a day in the future
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how does gawain not die?
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a love token from the knights wife, a magic green girdle to protect him from any harm
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the green knights reaction to gawain and his wife?
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hes not mad for some weird reason
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how many main characters are in the pardoner's tale
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3 boys
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what happens to them
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they kill each other 2 stab one and drink poison and die themselves
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who do the boys in the pardoner's tale treat badly
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an old man
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what had they sworn to do before bein sidetracked? what side tracked them?
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catch death; gold they found; ironically they found Death
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describe how sir gawain and the green knight is divided
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its divided into strophes (instead of stanzas) which all end in a bob and wheel
bob-short 1-3 syllable line wheel-four rhymed lines |
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what season is it in sir gawain and the green knight
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christmas
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green knight lets gawain, the best of the knights, submit a blow as long as...
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he, the green knight gets to return the blow a year and a day in the future
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how does gawain not die?
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a love token from the knights wife, a magic green girdle to protect him from any harm
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the green knights reaction to gawain and his wife?
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hes not mad for some weird reason
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most famous of al medieval morality plays
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everyman
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7 deadly sins
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pride, avarice, wrath, envy, gluttony, and sloth
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whats the only thing a man keeps after he dies
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a record of his good deeds
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who does God send to get Everyman?
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Death
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name one difference between the Old English and the Middle English dialects
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the endings became greatly simplified from old to middle
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what brought the most change during the Middle English dialect period?
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the Norman Conquest and the French language it brought
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one extremely significant development that took place in Middle English was the gradual adoption of _ ______ _______ _______
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a standard written language
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Maucer and Malory represent what dialect
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London dialect of Middle English
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change in the pronunciation of long vowels called
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The Great Vowel Shift
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author born in Warwickshire
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Malory
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fought in the Hundred Years' War
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Malory
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elected to Parliament
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Malory
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indicted on a wide variety of offenses
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Malory
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terrorized an abbey for two days and planned a prison escape
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Malory
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wrote Le Morte Darthur
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Malory
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rewrote sources of King Arthur and the Knights of his Round Table from other languages into english
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Malory
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contemporary of william caxton
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malory
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lancelot falls in love with
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guinevere
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king arthur's kingdom is attacked by
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sir mordred
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sir mordred is related to Arthur how
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arthur is his uncle
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idylls of the king
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tennyson
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a ct yankee in king arthur's court
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mark twain
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galahad
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erskine
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the once and future king
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white
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who did king arthur knight in le morte darthur
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griflet
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the knight of the fountain
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pellinore
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