21st Century Flashcards
Predicted that the current pope would also be damned for that sin
Pope Nicholas III-
sold his sister to a lustful Marquis
Venedico Caccianemico
attacked Dante
Flippo Argente
He attacked the three wild beast
Dante
Daughter of the banker and a Dante’s woman
Beatrice
a kindly , fatherly soul, and he takes Beatrice’s place as Dante’s guide
St. Bernard
“pig or hug” where the sinners for the sin GLUTTONY reside
Ciacco
Is a noble man who fights for the truth and for the Christ
Knight
main character whose name is Madame Englantine
Prioness
a robust and masculine man, travels with the prioness and second nun
Monk
The name “England” is derived from the Old English
name ENGLALAND, which means “LAND OF THE
ANGLES”
•known as the Celts
• Stonehenge
• no written language
• absorbed into the Latin speaking Roman
society
• The Anglo-Saxons’ two urgings–war and
wandering become part of the oral tradition
OLD ENGLISH OR ANGLO-SAXON
(450-1066)
• is an example of an Anglo-Saxon hero tale.
• the earliest literature
•the national epic of the Anglo-Saxon, one
of the striking features - the use of alliteration
Beowulf