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50 Cards in this Set
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What is orthodoxy?
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Correct believes according to a certain religion
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What is the main force behind orthodoxy?
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Roman Catholic Church
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What were the primary means/tools of censoring literature in the middle ages?
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The continuation of the discourse of Western realism
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What institution was invented to house scholastic learning with in church authority?
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The University
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What is "vernacular"?
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Common language of the people
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What are the two vernacular language traditions?
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Germanic and Romance (mostly French)
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How did vernacular literature survive when literacy meant Latin?
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Monks and royal courts used literacy to facilitate the development of vernacular literature
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What are the two primary literary genres in the middle ages?
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Trouverre Narratives and Troubador Lyrics
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In what sense are the two literary genres heterodox?
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Sexual Morality (adultery) and Fertility cults
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What genre celebrated Charlemange as the new Roman- Christian emperor?
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Epic Poetry- Chanson de Geste (Song of the Spirit)
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What two genres influenced the heroic aspect of the Arthurian legends?
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Celtic Heroic Myths and Chanson de Geste
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What is the "formula" for rendering heterodox literature orthodox?
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Orthodox Poetry= romance+ grail heroism
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What mythical object united heroism and romance?
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The Holy Grail
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Who wrote the Grail Romance?
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Chretien de Troyes
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When did Chretien de Troyes write the Grail Story?
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1180
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Who is the protagonist? (The Son of the Widowed Mother)
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Perceval
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Who did not want Perceval to be a knight?
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His Mom
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Why can't Perceval be a knight?
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Not part of the noble descendant
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Who does Perceval meet and stay the night with?
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The Fischer King
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When does the grail appear to Perceval?
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At night
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What was Perceval suppose to ask the grail?
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To whom do you serve?
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Why did Perceval not ask the question of the grail?
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Raised not to ask questions
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Name for cursed kingdom
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Wasteland
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Who does Perceval find out the Fischer King is?
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His uncle
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Is Perceval really part of the noble descent?
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Yes
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Who does Perceval turn away from?
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God
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Why does Perceval turn away from God?
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The grail cursed him
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Who died before the Grail Romance was complete?
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Chreitien de Troyes
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Was there ever a finished copy of the Grail Romance?
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No evidence
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What probably happened to the only surviving copy of the Grail Romance?
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Burned in fire
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What fire was the book most likely burned in?
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Fire of Troyes
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Perceval's mother tells him to...
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serve ladies
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The first lady Perceval meets he...
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Steals the ring
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When Perceval claims the armor of the Red Knight, a lady...
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laughs
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Who predicts that Perceval will triumph at Arthur's Court?
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The court jester
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Rescuing Blachflueur makes Perceval....
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think of his mother
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In the castle of the Fischer King, Perceval sees a squire carrying ....(three things)
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Sword, Lance, and Grail
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The hermit instructs Perceval that his worst sin was...
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causing his mother sorrow
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What general ritualistic practice are the Grail messages thought to derive from?
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Ancient Rituals- the cycle of seasons, the death and rebirth of the year.
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What is the one primitive European source that has been identified?
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Folklore of the European Celts
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What three elements from Welsh mythology are cited as sources for the meaning of the Grail?
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Beheading ritual, cauldron of rebirth, and magic platter
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What is the connection between this mythology and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?"
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The beheading ritual
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What story involves the same beheading ritual as the Celtic Grail?
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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The Primitive source for this mythology has been traced back further to what and to where?
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Egyptian Vegetation Cult
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Who Shifts from French to what authorship?
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English
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Who became someone important in 1485
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Thomas Mallory Le Morte D'Arthur
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Who becomes the Grail King?
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Arthur
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What is the effect of Adultery?
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Wasteland
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What replaces nature mythology in the wasteland?
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Christian Morality
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What is the theme for a lost monarchy?
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Nostalgia
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