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33 Cards in this Set
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Story of Thomas Beckett
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Archbishop of Canterbury.
Henry was complaining about him one day, 4 of his Knights overheard and murdered the Archbishop in his church on the Alter. Beckett was instantly martyred and Canterbury became a holy shrine. Henry II was made to do penance - walked from London to Canterbury and, for the last mile, walked on his knees because he was so sorry. |
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Story of Thomas Beckett
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Archbishop of Canterbury.
Henry was complaining about him one day, 4 of his Knights overheard and murdered the Archbishop in his church on the Alter. Beckett was instantly martyred and Canterbury became a holy shrine. Henry II was made to do penance - walked from London to Canterbury and, for the last mile, walked on his knees because he was so sorry. |
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Pilgrimage
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A journey of public penance for past sins
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Pilgrimage
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A journey of public penance for past sins
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Comedy
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Characters battle the forces of fate and win, ending in marriage and procreation
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Tragedy
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Characters battle the forces of fate and lose, ending in death and the end of a lineage
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Comedy
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Characters battle the forces of fate and win, ending in marriage and procreation
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Fate
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That which is beyond human control
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Tragedy
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Characters battle the forces of fate and lose, ending in death and the end of a lineage
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Fate
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That which is beyond human control
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Satire
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An artful, witty attack at a serious subject
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Courtly Love Tradition
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A set of idealized customs and practices in which love was spiritual, NOT physical and, therefore, could be practiced with someone who wasn't your spouse. Allowed for adultery!
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Humanism
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Celebrating ALL that it is to be human!
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Arcite
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Knight's Tale. Released first and returned. Dies right after winning.
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Palamon
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Knight's Tale. Man who stays in the tower the longest. Gets Emily after Arcite dies.
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Knight's Tale - Prayed to the God's. How is fate portrayed here?
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Arcite prays to Mars to win and does. Palamon prays to Venus to get Emily and does. Emily prays to Artemis and ends up praying for the one who loves her most to win. How this portrays faith is because they all win.
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Why was the Knight the first story teller?
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Chaucer needs to set up what he's about to knock down.
The Knight tells his story stylishly, eloquently, and humbly. |
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What does Chaucer satire in the Knight's Tale?
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CLT - breaks up 2 men that are described to be closer than brothers, they love Emily at first sight and don't even know her, and fate because of the Gods.
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Nicholas the Gallant
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Miller's Tale - the man Alison cheats with.
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Absalon
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Miller's Tale - Other man in love with Alison, a parish clerk.
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Alison
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Miller's Tale - Woman who cuckholds on her husband.
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John and Aleyn
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Reeve's Tale - the 2 Cambridge students
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Symkyn
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The Miller in the Reeve's Tale.
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The Reeve's Tale
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John and Aleyn, students of Cambridge, go to the mill to ground their corn. Miller sets their horses loose and steals half of their corn meal and tells his wife to make bread out of it. The find their horse hours later in a ditch and the Miller lets them stay the night. A decides to rape the Miller's daughter in revenge, and then John, jealous, decides to rape his wife by moving the crib to the bottom of his bed so when the wife felt around after peeing she climbed into his bed. A got up later to get John to leave and accidentally got in the M's bed and told him about how he had raped his daughter all night. They start to fight, wake up J and the wife, wife accidentally hits her husband over the head, and the men escape.
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The Pardoner's Tale
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3 men are getting drunk in a bar when one is told that an old friend of his is killed by Death. The 3 men swear to be like brothers and protect eachother and find and kill death. They go in search and find gold under a tree. They drew straws and the one with the shortest went to get bread and wine. They all decided they would kill eachother - the one who went to town poisoned the wine and the 2 with the gold decided they would attack the other when he came back. They all ended up killing eachother.
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John and Aleyn
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Reeve's Tale - the 2 Cambridge students
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Symkyn
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The Miller in the Reeve's Tale.
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The Reeve's Tale
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John and Aleyn, students of Cambridge, go to the mill to ground their corn. Miller sets their horses loose and steals half of their corn meal and tells his wife to make bread out of it. The find their horse hours later in a ditch and the Miller lets them stay the night. A decides to rape the Miller's daughter in revenge, and then John, jealous, decides to rape his wife by moving the crib to the bottom of his bed so when the wife felt around after peeing she climbed into his bed. A got up later to get John to leave and accidentally got in the M's bed and told him about how he had raped his daughter all night. They start to fight, wake up J and the wife, wife accidentally hits her husband over the head, and the men escape.
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The Pardoner's Tale
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3 men are getting drunk in a bar when one is told that an old friend of his is killed by Death. The 3 men swear to be like brothers and protect eachother and find and kill death. They go in search and find gold under a tree. They drew straws and the one with the shortest went to get bread and wine. They all decided they would kill eachother - the one who went to town poisoned the wine and the 2 with the gold decided they would attack the other when he came back. They all ended up killing eachother.
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John and Aleyn
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Reeve's Tale - the 2 Cambridge students
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Symkyn
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The Miller in the Reeve's Tale.
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The Reeve's Tale
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John and Aleyn, students of Cambridge, go to the mill to ground their corn. Miller sets their horses loose and steals half of their corn meal and tells his wife to make bread out of it. The find their horse hours later in a ditch and the Miller lets them stay the night. A decides to rape the Miller's daughter in revenge, and then John, jealous, decides to rape his wife by moving the crib to the bottom of his bed so when the wife felt around after peeing she climbed into his bed. A got up later to get John to leave and accidentally got in the M's bed and told him about how he had raped his daughter all night. They start to fight, wake up J and the wife, wife accidentally hits her husband over the head, and the men escape.
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The Pardoner's Tale
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3 men are getting drunk in a bar when one is told that an old friend of his is killed by Death. The 3 men swear to be like brothers and protect eachother and find and kill death. They go in search and find gold under a tree. They drew straws and the one with the shortest went to get bread and wine. They all decided they would kill eachother - the one who went to town poisoned the wine and the 2 with the gold decided they would attack the other when he came back. They all ended up killing eachother.
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