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47 Cards in this Set
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DEFINITION: ING
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Son
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Importance of the connections between Beowulf and Hrothgar
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B. is repaying Hrothgar’s kindness to his father Ecgtheow, when Ecgtheow was in exile for killing a man.
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DEFINITION: Litotes
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understatement
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DEFINITION: BEOT
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English term for ritual boast, often a vow formulated via an either/or construction.
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DEFINITION: WYRD
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Fate
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oferhogode
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too proud, arrogance
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1066
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Norman-French colonization of England. Change in Language, writing style
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Geoffrey of Monmouth
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Welsh priest, created Arthur romance
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the “Christmas game”
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The challenge involves a legal contract and a test of Gawain’s trauthe personal integrity
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trauthe
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A Middle English word whose connotations encompass truth, pledged word, faithfulness between lovers, personal integrity.
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fraunchyse
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the generosity of noble man
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clannes
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bodily chastity and spiritual purity
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cortaysye
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good manner, courtliness
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pite'
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pity, piety
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fyn’amor
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Courtly love
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John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
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main patron of chaucer
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palmer
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pilgrim who has gone to Jerusalem and brought back palm leaves to commemorate the trip
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Harry Bailey
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Host of Tabard Inn in canterburry tales
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three estates
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aristocrats, members of the church, commoners
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fabliau
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a comic verse narrative generally involving non-aristocratic people in a realistic setting, often bawdy, and usually involving certain stock characters
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"The Marriage Group"
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tales told by the Wife, Clerk, Merchant, Franklin
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Exemplum
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anecdote which supports the moral arguments of a sermon
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Breton lai
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Bretons are the Celtic people of northwest France (Brittany): a lai is a brief romance focusing mainly on love and magic.
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Gentilesse
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gentle, noble behavior, the gracious and courteous manners or behavior usually associated with one who is nobly born.
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KIND
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Medieval Term for Nature
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Feast of Corpus Christi
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57 days after Easter. The feast commemorates the bodily sacrifice of Christ in his human incarnation.
celebrates God made man; |
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typology
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certain Old Testament events were read as imperfect prefigurations of later events in the New Testament
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The Wakefield Master
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responsible for 6 plays in Towneley cycle including 2 versions of the Shepherds' Play.
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allegory
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usually involves some kind of spiritual or psychical event being translated into other terms which invite interpretation
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1425
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Earliest surviving morality play: The Castell of Perseveraunce.
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Bede
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wrote Ecclasiastical history of English
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Absilon
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has amazing hair=male beauty/vanity
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SCOP
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Poet
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COMITATUS
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honor code: the basic idea that everyone protects the king at all costs even if it means a warrior giving up his own life.
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definition: “quite”
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repay
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outridere
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supervises the outlying estates of his monastery
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lymytour
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licensed to hear confessions, preach & beg in a certain area. (Friar in Chaucer)
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riche gnof
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boorish, dumb person (carpenter from miller's tale)
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hende
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handy, courteous, skillful
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Glose
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Flatter, coax
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Aurelius
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character in franklin's tale
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Dorigen
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character in franklin's tale
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trouther
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pledged word
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maistrye
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the power to control a realtionship
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Free (in franklin's tale)
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liberty or generosity
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Arvegas
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character in franklin's tale
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Thomas a Becket
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Saint who inspires travel to canterbury
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