14&15th Century - Context

Question 1

context, main ideas/themes (9)

Answer 1

• patriarchy
• chivalry
• mystery
• morality
• medieval
• gothic
• courtly love
• epic prose
• religion

Question 2

Chaucers ‘Knight’s Tale’

Answer 2

2 knights express their love as a sickness, competing via whose wounds are most significant, ‘The fairnesse of that lady, that i see yong in the garden romen to and fro, is cause all my crying and my wo’
‘the God of love, a bendeicite!’

Question 3

Chaucers ‘Miller’s Wife’

Answer 3

clerk seducing carpenters wife, sexual love, adultery, cunning and deceit, age-gap
‘for she was wide and yong, and he was old and deemed himself ben lyk a cokewold’
‘and privately he caught her by the queynte’

Question 4

Malory’s ‘Le Morte D’Arthur’

Answer 4

stories of King Arthur, courtly love, chivalry, sex
‘I sholde fynde you a damsell of beaute and of goodnesse’- Merlin suggesting beauty should not transcend all
‘she hath ordeyned by enchauntement that ye shall never love none other but hir’- power of women over men