medieval period review Flashcards
ugly pilgrim
summoner
fake pilgrim
nun
sells relics
pardoner
one who is strong
miler
one who can be bought— will let you keep a concubine if you pay him
summoner
been to Jerusalem 3 times
wife of bath
excessively neat
yeoman
who is a shepherd
parson
tithes
plowman
loves food - epicurus
franklin
neck whiter than a lily flower
friar
not pale like a tormented soul
monk
who judges the tale
host
who is less busy than he seems to be
lawyer
who is “gold” in “if gold rust what then will iron do”
parson
who has a gold thumb
miller
one who keeps the gold he wins in pestilences
doctor
hunts with his greyhounds and expensive horses
monk
who is of sovereign value in all eyes
knight
sleeps as little as a nightingale
squire
speaks french
nun
who is stupid but can quote a few latin phrases
summoner
who wears a st. christopher medal
yeoman
who feeds little dogs roasted meat
nun
who has a vulgar mouth
miller
who eats garlic and onions
summoner
who is gay
pardoner
who is an overseer who is feared like the plague by those beneath him
reeve
who is a civil servant, sheriff, etc.
franklin
who knows every statue off by rote
lawyer
who knows the barmaids better than the lepers
friar
who was embroidered like a meadow bright
squire
who went to render thanks
knight
who punished the cook if the sauces weren’t right
franklin
the one whose only care “was study”
oxford cleric
who had good old “common sense”
manciple
one who “loved God best and then his neighbor as himself”
plowman
one who was greedy even though he preached against it
pardoner
one who was a maker of cloth
wife of bath
one who as modest- not showy- wore a fustian, stained tunic
knight
one who was an hones worker, good and true
plowman
one who “didn’t rate that text at a plucked men that said that hunters were not holy men”
monk
one who had a thin, underfed horse
oxford cleric
who knew how to joust and dance and draw and write
squire
who was coy
nun
who should have been cloistered
monk
who played the bagpipes
miller
who was most chaucerian
franklin; host
who sent his prisoners home/ they walked the plank
skipper
who was a gelding or a mare
pardoner
what are two names of this time period
medieval period
middle ages
who is compared to a pearl
Sir Gawain
what are 5 elements of a romance
year and a day quest magic disguise test of knight's honor Idealized setting (camelot)
3 romances that we read
wife of bath’s tale
Sir Gawain and the green knight
Le Morte d’Arthur
who was king arthur’s corrupt son
modred
who was king arthur’s wife
Gwynevere
who did the pilgrims go to pay tribute at the cathedral at canterbury
St. Thomas of Becket
from where do the pilgrims leave and when
Southwark/ tabard inn
spring- april
who wrote the arthur legends from prison
Thomas Mallory
what was the moral lesson of the pardoner’s tale
avarice is the root of all evil
how was the wife of bath’s tale a romance
old womna disguise test of knight's honor- kept word to old lady year and a day quest- answer for riddle idealized past- king's court
how was Sir Gawain and the green knight a romance
magic- head could talk while detached
disguise- green knight to a lord
year and a day- period of time to go back to green knight
test of honor- return to the green knight
quest
idealized past- king’s court
how was le morte D’ Arthur a romance
idealized past- camelot
gawain’s strenght- magic
test of honor- launcelot does not kill gawain
quest- gawain avenge bros/ arthur wants throne back
what does morte mean
death
who was bedivere
king arthur’s knight- last to survive
asked to put excalibur in lake
spends rest of life at hermitage with the archbishop of canterbury
what are heroic couplets
2 rhyming lines of iambic pentameter
who writes in heroic couplets
geoffrey chaucer
who brought chivalry to the english court
Eleanor of Aquitaine
what began the medieval period, when?
norman conquest 1066
what ended the middle ages
war of roses
Henry VII of house of lancasters defeated Richard III of the yorks and became henry tudor
who translated the bible in the Medieval period
john wycliffe
how was the new middle class established
After the black plague killed all of the serfs
Sheep farms
what language did the aristocrats speak?
commoners?
clergy/
french
english
latin
which ballad was a bout a shipwreck
sir patrick spens
what was geoffrey’s title
father of english literature
how many pilgrims went on the pilgrimage (minus the host and chaucer)
29
one exxample of a microscopic detail
miller’s wart
one exmaple of a panoramic detail
clergy is corrupt
7 deadly sins
lust pride sloth greed gluttony envy wrath
which ballad was about a poisioning
lord randal
what are two symbols in Sir Gawain and the Green Nkight
holly-peace
axe-war
sash-trespassing, pagan magic, sin about lying
what is a cuckold
husband whose wife cheats on him
coy means
flirty
which ballad has a man whose fiance was taken by an old knight
robin hood and allan a dale
how is commitatus one them e that carries from teh anglo- saxon time over to the medieval time
loyalty and patriotism themes in ballads. Arthur and the knights of the round table. Gawain took challenge from king
how is the tone of the anglo-saxon works different from the tone of the medieval works
much lighter, brighter, more optimistic
what is another word for greece
avarice
which ballad was about a domestic dispute
get up and bar the door
chaucer’s tales give a great picture of _____ century england
14th
1340
what are 4 things that helped to standarize english as the language of england
Henry VII was first english speaking knig
Chaucer wrote for common man
Unpatriotic to speak enemy’s language during 100 years war
printing press
Wycliffe wrote Bible in english
what are structural characteristics of a ballad
quatrains 2nd and 4th lines= shorter and rhyme song like meter repitition dialogue
what are 4 sound devices
assonance consonance alliteration rhyme cacophony euphony onomatopeia
what is a line that is repeated in the same places in several stanzas
refrains
whose chin would harbor no beard
pardoner
snowed with meat and drink
franklin
woe to the cook
franklin
