Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
32 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Sir Orfeo: Breton Lais |
English king harpist Herds falls asleep and has to marry Fairy King Orfeo tries to gather the knights to fight but she disappears O plays harp for king and demands H back wins Steward doesn't recognize him cries at story of King having died and he is appointed heir |
|
|
Marie de France: Lanval/Lanfaul |
L becomes member of court through money Throws many parties L denies Queen's approaches Insults the queen by saying his wife is more beautiful His wife is more beautiful - freed |
|
|
MDF: Bisclavret |
Knight suffers werwolf curse Wife is disgusted and plots with lover to keep him a wolf King finds out and rewards him, keeps him wolf |
|
|
MDF: Chativel |
Story she has heard - lady loved by too many men Knights perform courageous acts All injured or killed because fighting for her Unhappy one / four sorrows |
|
|
MDF: Les Deux Amanz |
Mountain - King attached to daughter Girl gets boyfriend potion He climbs mountain with her although she is fasting Dies She dies out of sadness buried together |
|
|
MDF: Yonec |
Old man takes beautiful wife to produce heir - locks her away for fear of losing her
Loses her beauty lies - begs for solution Knight as a hawk flies in - husband and sister notice Put up nails - he dies Son becomes heir and kills grand-father to avenge |
|
|
MDF: Laustic |
Man in love with neighbour's wife She loves him because he lives close At night they go to the window and admire each other??? Husband angry wife keeps leaving She says she is admiring a nightingale The husband sends out troops to catch it He kills the bird and throws it at her Servant brings neighbour bird and he carries it around with him that day onward |
|
|
Sir Launfall |
King Arthur's steward L Guinevere - bad reputation many lovers- married to King Not dressed well - cannot go to church Lies down to rest in a forest Sleeps with a fairy - if he tells he will lose her - repays all his debts G tries to approach him he says no she yells at him saying he doesn't love any woman he says yes - loses Fairy Triamour King blinds G for lying |
|
|
Amis and Amiloun |
Noble knights - bottle bearer and steward Duke hires them - Amiloun accused of sleeping with Belisaunt Amis and Amiloun swap clothes Amis goes to court to save Amiloun and puts a sword in his bed Amis marries B and they have children and inherit Amiloun tells his wife - she is disgusted - ditches him and leaves him with Amount his nephew Amis cuts throats of children to cure leporasy of Amiloun Everyone is now alive and well ??? |
|
|
Gawain and the Green Knight |
Feast at Arthur's - will not eat until story/adventure Gigantic green man and green horse come Gawain volunteers himself because shameful to accuse king - Gknight will get one axe blow and one year later so will Gawain Gawain kisses woman and lord gets animals Girdle as a reminder for human sin He gets two blows for the wife's kisses Lord Bertilak gets powers from Sourceress |
|
|
The Book of the Duchess Chaucer |
Poet is really tired and can't sleep reads story of King Seys and Queen Alcyone King on a ship storm Queen waits for him Will not eat bread prays to Juno for info Seys tells wife to find body and burry it by sea Falls asleep himself and dreams uninterpretable dream |
|
|
General Prologue: Chaucer |
Starts in the Spring People want to go on pilgrimage Tabbard Inn Narrator wants to describe every member of the group heading to Canterbury |
|
|
Knight's Tale Chaucer |
Thesus married to Hippolita Brought her and Emilia back to Athens stopped by women grieving on side about husbands killed at Creon Goes to Creon finds Arcite & Palamon Imprisons them - they fall in love with Emilia Prithorous releases Arcite Arcite worked in their house and got very close Both in the forest start to fight stopped by King deemed to be executed wife and daughter say no T declared Arcite won but Em doesn't want a lover |
|
|
Miller's Tale Chaucer |
John rents out room in his house to Nicholas who takes liking to Allisoun N convinces A to sleep with him then A goes to church and sees Abislon who also loves her Abs kisses her ass then brands N's ass |
|
|
Reeve's Tale Chaucer |
Oswald carpenter Miller Simkin steals corn and meal John and Allan are students and see this Sleep in separate beds because Miller let horse goWife sleeps with John, Allan sleeps with daughter John tells Miller by accident |
|
|
WOB Prologue and Tale Chaucer |
Knight sees maiden and rapes her Queen says he has one year to find out what women want most Sees maidens - old woman says she will tell him - doesn't want to bare shame of such an ugly wife Women want to be in control She asks if he wants young and not loyal or ugly and loyal he said whatever she wants she becomes young and loyal |
|
|
Man of Law Chaucer |
In Rome syrian merchant's overhear talk of daughter Custance - goddess married off to Syrian Sultan Mother pretends to convert but doesn't Knight loves her stages scene that she has killed by putting weapons in her bed She is put in a boat by herself without rudders C regains memory and tells her father Alla dies and her son becomes the emperor |
|
|
Pardoner's Tale Chaucer |
Sheep's bone = relic Flemish couple drinking and behaving in excess 3 go to death bell - see gold coins instead can't carry them without thinking they have stolen Want to kill youngest when he returns but he has poisoned the wine bottles All die |
|
|
Parson's tale Chaucer |
Formal tedious sermon Explains the way to heaven Mundane 7 deadly sins |
|
|
Anchorine Riwle |
Record of Anchorite's way of living Windows/architecture Cell/interior must be protected Foxes and birds |
|
|
Christina Markyate: St Albans |
Dove stayed with Beatrix for a week - virtuous child will come - Theodora/Christina arrived Sueno taught of god and taught her how to improve virginity for God Ranulf wants Christina and parents tried to force her Berthed asked to violate her and parents wanted to Sueno misinterpreted and judged Edwin follower of god found out and helped her escape Roger and Christina's eyes met in church - sexual tension |
|
|
Disputacionne between Body and Wormes Carthusian Miscellany |
Transitomb Buried in cast of arms Women are beauty and flesh Chaucer's tale used ironically Worms had no sense of smell but still went for it although she was decomposing Worm = dragon - asks for a knight to save her |
|
|
Pearl |
Father loses daughter Has delusions She tries to tell him about the eternal world He cannot understand |
|
|
Hocleve |
Wittclifism Lancelot - manly topics Only priests had access to read the bible Dismisses women entirely |
|
|
Margery Baxter Hoccleve |
Followed the teachings of Wycliffe Part of the Norwich sprawlers Used as a book Got her literacy from the bible Her husband reads her the law of Christ Authoritative sources/who is the learned teacher |
|
|
Margery Kempe |
Illiterate Has a child - postpartum depression Goes on pilgrimage husband vows chastity Tells story of conversion experience Flesh is rejected Unsure if the visions are from God or the devil Nothing to offer God - has no virginity Disrupts social order |
|
|
Croxton Play of the Sacrament |
Forest of Aragon Priest changes water to blood - colour If not partake in consecration = heresy Aristorious a christian merchant - talks about places he has travelled Jherico - dangers of what merchants do Links places by buying and selling - no religious value Economic qualities - market - bargaining Processional movements |
|
|
John Mandeville |
Hereford Map Florentines and Ottomans Travelling around the world TRAVEL GUIDE Stars can only be seen on one side India with two brahmas Alexander plans to conquer but realizes the people are good Failed traveller fails to conquer the world |
|
|
King of Tars
|
Sultan of Damascus hears about beautiful daughter and demands hand She has to accept faith Have a child with no limbs If her God can bring child back to life he will convert He changes skin colour from black to white 5 Saracen kings declare war on Syria |
|
|
Noah's Arc and Flood |
Doesn't know how to build & is too old Completely excluded from process - wife |
|
|
Conspiracy of Mary and Joeseph |
Judas could have sold ointment for 30 pence in profit but lost because hd didn't sell Porter doesn't let Judas in - recognition |
|
|
Shepherd's Play |
Wakefield - very few actors Sheep substitutes Christ Sheep in the cradle - irony Mundane to imitate the sacred Cherries in winter = miraculous rebirth Helped shape civic identity |
