medieval period Flashcards

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event and year that starts the medieval period

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1066

norman conquest

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ruler who introduced the feudal system

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william the conqueror

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french queen who brough chivalry to the courts of englnad

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eleanor of aquitaine

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4
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ruler whose treacherous brother JOhn aappers in robin hood legends at hteh villian

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richard the lionhearted

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5
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document established to limit royal privilge to the king

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magna carta

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person who ordered the first complete translation of the bible into english

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john wycliffe

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7
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author of le morte d’ arthur

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sir thomas mallory

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8
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adventure tales of heroic knights are called

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romantic tales

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four characteristics of the romantic tales-

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a year and a day
magic
idealized setting -camelot
test of knight’s honor

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10
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desribe chaucer’s view

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miscroscopic

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11
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place where chaucer is buried

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poet’s corner, westminster abbey

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12
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language of teh aristocrats

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french

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13
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language of the clergy

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latin

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14
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language of the commoner

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english

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15
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event that ended the medieval period

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war of the roses

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16
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king who won the war of the roses

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henry VI

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17
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king who was defeated in the war of the roses

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richard III

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18
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type of verse that the canterbury tales is writte in

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heroic couplets

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19
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chaucer’s title

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father of english literature

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20
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person pilggrims are going to pay tribute to in canterbury

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st. thomas of becket

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21
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another name for themedivela operiod

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middle ages

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22
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the name of the 1st part of teh canterbury tales

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general prolouge

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23
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the name of a ballad about domestic conflict

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get up and bar the door

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24
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name of the sword that bedivere takes to the lake

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excalibur

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person who kills king arthur
modred
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paradise where heroes are taken after death
avalon
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anotehr word for greed,
avarice
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pilgrim who tale has the theme of avarice
the pardoner
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person who wants revenge on launcelot for killing his brother
sir gawain
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pilgrim known for being ugly
summoner
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pilgrim who fought for his king in the crusades
knight
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pilgrim who fed little dogs the fiest roasted meat
nun
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pilgrim who is strong
miller
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pilgrim hwo is a sphard
parson
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pilgrim who is a landownder
frankling
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pilgrim who cmpared to a gelding or mare, not stallion
pardoner
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pilgrim who was embroidered like a meadow bright
squire
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ballad that realates at tale of piosoning
lord randal
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symbol of peace in sir gawain
holly branch
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piglrim who has a dirty mouth
miller
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place where the pilgrims started
southwark/ tabard inn
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season that the pilgrims left for canterbury
spring- april
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seven deadly sins
``` lust greed pride envy sloth gluttony wrath ```
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"once dead what matter how their souls may fare? they can go blackberrying for all icare!"
pardoner
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you say im a old and fouler than a hen/ you needd not fear to be a cuckold then" work?
wife of bath's tale
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his neck was whiter than a lily flower
friar
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chlidren were afraid when he appaeared
summoner
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he had joined our ranks '/ to do his pilgrimage and render thanks
knight
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for in his trunk he had a pillowcase/ which he asserted was our layd's veil
pardoner
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why, hed allow just for a queart of wine/ any good lad to keep a concubine
summoner
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and jesu-hear my prayer! cut short the lives/ of those who won't be goverened by their wives1" speaker?
old lady in wfie of bath's tale
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I will. .. sue for peace, for peace is always preferable to war"
launcelot
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" as a pearl is of greater rice than dry white peas/ so _______ stands out above all other knights
sir gawain
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you are nothing but beardless babes about this bench. | spekaer?
the green knight
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for instance---we are all at fortune's beck -- your horse may thorw you down and break your neck speaker?
pardoner
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fine gray fur, the finest in the land, and supple boots
monk
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woe to the cook whose sauces had no sting!
franklin
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that if gold rust, what then will iron do?
parson
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he felt it with his thumb, and thus he knw/ its quality and took theree times his due
miller
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he paid his tithes in full hwy they wer due
plowman
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we set him up in judgement over us
host
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themes of ballads
loyalty, revenge, remorse, betryal, envy ,
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topics of ballads
disastorus wars, tragiv love, shipwrecks, enterprising outlaws
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who was gay
pardoner
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who was epicurean
the franklin
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why does gawain hold a grudge against launcelot
launcelot killed gawain's two brother
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what does launcelot notice about gawain's fighting in the morning and at noon
gawain's strenght rises for 3 hours until noon
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"i will never strike a night who has fallen"
launcelot
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what is the moral of the pardoner's tale
avarice is the root of all evil
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how many rioters in the pardoner's tale
3
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what are the riotes in the pardoner's tale searching for
death
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what is a florin
gold coin