Age Of Chaucer Flashcards
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When to when is the age of Chaucer
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1340-1400
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Name the 3 reigns that Chaucer lived through
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Born at time of Edward 3, live thru Richard 2, died when Henry 4 ascended
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Edward 3s reign was full of _ and _
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Chivalry and romantic idealism
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The romantic idealism is seen in Chaucers _ and Froissarts _
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Knights Tale and Chronicles
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What war went on when Chaucer was alive
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100 years war
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Famous victories in 100 years war by Edward 3?
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At Crecy and Poitiers
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What was the dark side to Edward 3s rule
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Nobility and commerical classes led a luxurious life but the masses suffered
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When did Black Death start
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1348-9
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Why was there heavy tax on the masses
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To finance 100 years war
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Who led peasant uprising
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Wat Tyler, Jack Straw and unfrocked priest John Ball
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When did the glamour of life go from England
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During reign of Richard 2
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How was the church during Chaucers time
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Corrupt and greedy
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Was Chaucer a social reformer
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No
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Examples where Chaucers writing criticises church
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Merry and wanton friar, pardoner who wanders hawking indulgences and relics
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Who is morning star of Reformation
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John Wyclif
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What did Wyclif do
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He wanted to revive spirituality, he wrote pamphlets, he sent wandering preachers far with Gospels message
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Who produced first vernacular Bible
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Wyclif
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2 active forces in England of later 14th century?
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Social unrest and new religious movement
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New learning was the 3rd influence in 14th century England. Before that how was the old ways of learning
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Learning of oneself and others mainly was concerned with the Church
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Where did the new spirit in 14th century England arise from
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In Italy
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What was the new spirit from Italy
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There was renewed study of classical literature and the classical moral ideas
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Who were leaders of classical revival in Italy
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Petrarch and Boccaccio
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What was the new spirit called
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Humanism
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Features of humanism?
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Sense of beauty, delight in life, secular spirit
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What did the new spirit culminate to later
Renaissance
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When and where was Chaucer born
1340 in London
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Chaucers father was a ?
Vintner merchant
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How was Chaucers education
Liberal and varied
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What was Chaucer doing at 17
Page to the wife of Duke of Clarence, who was Edward 3s son
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What happened when the French army captured Chaucer from the English army
He was ransomed and returned. He then became valet of the kings chamber
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Chaucer was closely connected with the _
Court
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Chaucer was entrusted with what kind of missions and where he went?
Diplomatic , Italy
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Did Chaucer see the early Renaissance in Italy?
Yes
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Chaucer recieved much royal favour such as?
Was in parliament as Knight of the shire of Kent
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What happened to Chaucer after the overthrow of the Lancastrian party and who was his patron who also got overthrown?
John of Gaunt, he fell to poverty
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When was Chaucer granted a royal pension
On Ascension of John of gaunts son Henry 4
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Chaucer took a long lease on a house at _.Where did Chaucer die
Westminster, Westminster abbey
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The part of Westminster abbey where Chaucer is buried is called
Poets corner
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Chaucers education was 2fold how
Came from literature AND life
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What are the 3 periods of Chaucers writing
French, italian, english
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What did the court where Chaucer worked, like to read
French poetry and romance
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French period works of Chaucer
Roman de la Rose , The Boke of the Duchesse
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Mention Chaucers Italian works and their inspirations
Autobiographical House of Fame( Dante), Troylus and Cryseyde( Boccaccios Filostrato), Legende of Good Women
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What is Chaucers longest poem
Troylus and Cryseyde
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What is Chaucers most famous and characteristic work
Canterbury Tales
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Did Chaucer stop borrowing from French and Italian works
No but he ceases to be imitative and uses them in his own creative way
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What are Canterbury Tales
A set of stories fitted into a general framework from Chaucers English period
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Where do the pilgrims meet
At Tabard inn in Southwark
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Who else is staying in the Tabard inn
Chaucer
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Which century were pilgrimages popular
14th century
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Where did pilgrimage go
Shrine of the murdered St Thomas Beckett in Canterbury
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Who is the host of the Tabard inn
Harry Bailly
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What does Harry Bailly propose
To ease the tedious journey they will tell 2 tales on the way to Canterbury and 2 tales on the way back, winner of best tale gets free supper at the Tabard from other pilgrims
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Which class is the pilgrim company broadly belonging to
Middle classes
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When is the inn scene happening
Prologue of Canterbury tales
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Military profession is represented by which pilgrims?
Knight, squire, yeoman
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Ecclesiastical profession is represented by which pilgrims?
Prioress,nun,monk,friar, sumnour,pardoner,poor parson, Clerk of Oxford who is a student of divinity
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Other middle class pligirms?
Lawyer and physician
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Miscellaneous pligirms down the social scale?(14)
Franklin, merchant, Shipman, Miller, cook, manciple, reeve, haberdasher, carpenter, weaver, dyer, tapycer, ploughman, cloth maker named Alison or Wife Of Bath
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What picture does Canterbury tales paint
Picture of men and manners of England in Chaucers time
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How many pligirms are there, how many stories were supposed to be told, how many stories were actually told
29, 120, 24 tales
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Give example of contrast and wonderful variation in Canterbury tales
Chivalrous knights Tale in comparison to farcical story of Miller
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Finest tale in Canterbury tales, based on what
Knights tale( based on Boccaccios Teseide)
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Main characters of Knights tale
Palamon and Arcite, cousins of royal blood
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Who attacks Palamon and Arcite and where
Duke of theseus attacks their city Thebes
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Who do palamon and arcite fall in love with , and become rivals
Beautiful sister of the Dukes wife, emily
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Who is ransomed and returns in disguise unable to bear separation from Emily
Arcite
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Who makes his escape several years later from the tower of the palace
Palamon
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The cousins meet in duel but are interrupted by the Duke, who relents on insistence of the ladies, spares their life on what condition?
That each shall collect 100 knights and big tournament happens, winner gets Emily
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Who wins the tournament , how does the knights tale end
Palamon , with marriage of palamon and Emily
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The knights tale is set in heroic age of Greece but is it throughly_
Medievalised
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Was Chaucer a poet of the people
He was a court poet so no
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Does Chaucer write about the dark underside of life
No
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Where does Chaucer mention peasants revolt
Humorous reference in Nonnes Priestes Tale of the cock and fox
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Was Chaucer having personality of a reformer , what is his characteristic tone
No, his tone is that of pleasure in the good things in life
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Chaucer shows spirit of _
Italian humanism
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Who is morning star of renaissance
Chaucer
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What is a special feature in Chaucers poetry that you can see his love
Treatment of nature and outdoors
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What does Chaucer abandon and what does he adopt in poetry
Abandons old English alliteration and irregular rhyme / adopts French method of regular metre and end rhymes
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How did Chaucer influence poetry
Alliteration was displaced by end rhyme
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Chaucers rival in poetry, and former friend
John Gower
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Who was Troylus and Cryseyde dedicated to
Moral Gower
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Where does Gower make a reference to Chaucer
In the end of Confessio Amantis
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Differences between Gower and Chaucer
Gower was very learned and careful but did not have Chaucers vivacity and charm. Chaucer realised power of English from starting but Gower found it hard to choose a language.
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What languages are Speculum Medantis; Vox Clamantis; Confessio Amantis
French; latin; english
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What is confessio amantis about
Evils of seven deadly sins
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What is Vox Clamantis about and how does it reflect social conditions
Peasant revolt and gloomy view, strong criticism of clergy yet no sympathy with Wyclif
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Who were Wyclifs followers
Lollards
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Who was a poet of the people
William langland
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Tell about William Langlands life
Son of a franklin,born in Malvern in poverty
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What is William Langlands work
Vision of William concerning piers the plowman
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Piers the plowman is an enormous _poem. It is not a piece of literary art but is _ and vigorous.
Allegorical, morally earnest
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What happens in piers the plowman
Poet attacks social and ecclesiastical abuses
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How can Langlands spirit be described
Puritan and democratic though he was not a Wyclifs followers; he was moved by misery of the masses
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How is the language in piers the plowman and what dialect, what literary device where it's the last important poem to use it
Rustic, dialect is mix of southern and midland English , uses Anglo Saxon alliteration
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Name a Scottish 14th century poet who is father of Scottish poetry
John barbour, archdeacon of aberdeen
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What poem did John Barbour write and what's it about
The brus , about great deeds of Robert Bruce
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Chaucers age was not great in prose. What were Chaucers proses
His translation of Boëthius and his Treatise on the astrolabe
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What prose did Wyclif write , why were his pamphlets controversial
The artless English Bible and controversial English religious pamphlets, they were controversial because latin was supposed to be for the theology
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What is the single greatest prose of Chaucers age
The travels of sir John maundeville
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What does the preface of travels of sir John maudeville talk about
It says maundeville was born in st albans and he wandered far , set like a travelogue about his journeys in the far East and holy land
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Sir John maundeville never existed. What are the theories about who wrote his book
Translation of French from a certain Jean de Bourgogne; collection of fantastic stories from Pliny, Friar Odoric, Marco Polo
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First English prose classic
Travels of sir John maundeville
