Anglo-Saxon Quiz Flashcards
Time of bloody conflicts, ignorance, violence, barbarism
Dark Ages
First person to write about England
Julius Caesar in 55 B.C.
Conquered and remained in Britain for over 300 years
Romans
Original name given to England by Anglo-Saxons
Angle-land
Spoken language of Anglo-Saxons
Old English
Anglo-Saxon king who defeated Vikings
Alfred the Great
A descendant of Alfred the Great, swore an oath making a French descendant his heir
Edward the Confessor
Named Edward the Confessor’s heir
William Duke of Normandy
Battle in which William the Conqueror killed Harold
Battle of Hastings
Who’s conquest ended Anglo-Saxon dominance in England?
Norman
What religion took hold of Britain in 300 A.D.
Christianity
Who established a monastery at Canterbury?
Augustine
Only opportunity for education
Monasteries
Who earliest recorded history of English people came from
Venerable Bede
Poem that provided measure of immortality
Epic poem
Most famous surviving British epic
Beowulf
After Norman Conquest, England entered this
Medieval period
How did William the Conqueror bring tax and order to the land
Doomsday Book
Who took the throne after William the Conqueror?
Henry Plantagenet (Henry II)
Henry II’s son forced to sign Magna Carta
King John
War between England and France
Hundred Years’ War
Plague that killed third of England’s population
Black Death
Who fought in the War of Roses
House of York (white rose) and House of Lancaster (red rose)
Marked end of Middle Ages
When Henry Tudor of Lancaster killed Richard III and took the throne as Henry VII.
Chivalry
Code of honor intended to govern knightly behavior
Epic hero
A larger-than-life hero who embodies the ideas of a nation or race
Caesura
A pause or break in a line of poetry
Alliteration
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words
Kenning
Poetic synonyms (Germanic poems) meant to substitute nouns
Sin-stained demon
Scop
Professional poet
Feudalism
Political and economic system when William the Conqueror was King of England
