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28 Cards in this Set
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What is a lais?
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-oral tradition
-story based on a folk tale |
Marie de France
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What is a verse?
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-line
-poet decides when each line ends and how it is read |
Marie de France
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What are the main points of the Werewolf Story (Bisclaurette)?
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-wife gets mad because husband lied about being a werewolf
-he can't turn back and wife leaves him for another guy -he attacks her and her new knight husband -they have kids later that are born with pig noses |
Marie de France
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What are the main points of Nightingale?
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-disloyalty
-man and woman fall in love from windows -they had never spoken before but loved each other -wife tells husband the nightingale is keeping her awake -he kills the bird and the woman sends dead nightingale to the other man -ends up killing wife for being disloyal and loving another man |
Marie de France
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What are the main points of Sir Gawain the Green Knight?
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-manuscript survived the fire in London
-prose,verse -romance tale- long story based on adventure and heroic actions and characters |
unknown author
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What are the main points of Millers Tale?
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-Chaucer
-part 2 of the Canterbury Tales -fabliau, verse -not a romance -she cheats on husband -John the Carpenter had no business marrying the beautiful woman...Cuckold -Senex Amans- old man marrying a young woman and he couldn't satisfy her |
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What are the main points of Wife of Orleans
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-fabliau
-woman and husband live in the woods -he is supposed to be leaving but he doesn't trust her -she brings in a male who is supposed to stay in the house -husband dresses up as the new guy she gets him beat up because he said he would hurt him -woman is aware that this is the husband -woman has an affair with the young student |
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What are the main points of Wakefield's Second Shepherds Play?
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-play or drama
-part of a sequence of plays in Wakefield, this was the second one that had to do with shepherds -called this because sheperds were included within the story, also put on by those in the sheep industry -medieval shepherds going to see baby Jesus in the nativity scene |
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What does anachronistic mean?
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-"out of time"
-when something is implemented into a story where the time frames do not match up or make sense |
Wakefield's Second Shepherds Play
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What is a mystery play?
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-about biblical events and stories
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Wakefield's Second Shepherds Play
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What is a miracle play?
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-about saints and their lives
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Wakefield's Second Shepherds Play
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What is a passion play?
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-specifically about Christ, mostly his final days and hours
-made by the guild of nailers (those who made nails) |
Wakefield's Second Shepherds Play
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What are the main points of the City of Ladies?
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-teacher unit because of the nature of the work and the way the argument is presented and her written work gives her teaching authority
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Christine de Pisan
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How are the women depicted as sex symbols in the City of Ladies?
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-problem causers
-disloyal because of their sexual appetite -their reaction to other written works about women |
Christine de Pisan
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What is an allegory?
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-elongated metaphor
-prose |
Christine de Pisan
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What is misogyny?
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-women hating
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Christine de Pisan
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What are some points about Saint Francis?
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-he wrote the rule and guidelines for Franciscan life, it was very small
-he did not want to write a rule but felt it was necessary as his followers were growing |
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What are some points about Saint Anselm?
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-he believed that he was being tempted by the devil because of how much he struggled with his questioning of God's existence
-he wrote the Proslogion |
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What are some points about the Proslogion?
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-based on reason and philosophical thought
-proved God's existence through reason |
Saint Anselm
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What is Premise 1 about?
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-God is defined as that than which nothing greater can be conceived
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Saint Anselm
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What is Premise 2 about?
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-it is greater to exist in both reality and understanding than just understanding alone
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Saint Anselm
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What is Premise 3 about?
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-God must exist in reality and understanding because it is greater than just understanding
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Saint Anselm
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What are some main points about St. Thomas Aquinas?
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-he sought truth and knowledge as God's greatest gift
-inseparable from love of God -believed in reason -Summa Theologiae -Summa Contra Gentiles ("few men would possess the knowledge of God")(categorized as did Aristotle) |
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Who was Aquinas' influence and how?
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-Aristotle
-he reviewed Aristotle (which was preserved and reintroduced by Islamic philosophers) and what was true and what was not -his writing was a great threat to the Catholic Church -he wanted to relate and apply Aristotelian thought to faith in God |
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What adversities did Abelard face?
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-his book was burnt (BIG ONE)
-professional jealousy -Heloise |
Abelard
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What was Abelard's book about?
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-undermining and questioning the Church Doctrine, mostly the Trinity and the belief that God has 3 forms
-he physically burned his book after being forced to by the Church |
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What did Heloise do to Abelard?
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-Heloise's family castrated him, but he said burning the book was more humiliating and damaging than the castration could ever be
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What are other facts about Abelard?
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-students flocked to him
-they sought his knowledge |
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