Middle Ages Test Flashcards
4 of the literary genres of the catenary tales
Fables, romantic adventure, religious allegories, saint’s biographies
4 of the elements of a romance
A near perfect hero, supernatural events, a quest, and an evil enemy
Summarize get up and bar the door
A husband and wife have a competition to see who will close the door because neither of them are willing to do it. It is a silent game. Two men come into their house and eat their old Halloween feast. The men decide to shave the man’s beard and kiss the wife. The husband speaks up and loses the game.
Murdered boy sings song to honor Mary before dying
The Prioress Tale
A man kills his daughter to avoid shame
The Physician’s tale
Chicken eaten by Fox, wife burns feathers from grief
The nun’s priest tale
The friar harasses Sir Thomas for money but only received a fart
Summoner’s Tale
Friar tells a derogatory tale about the summoner
The friar’s tale
January marries May but falls in love with Damien
The merchant’s tale
John’s wife tricks him so she can date his roommate
The miller’s tale
A sermon on the seven deadly sins
The parson’s tale
Two soldiers who are cousins fight for Emelye but we don’t know who wins
The Knight’s Tale
Arthur’s wife
Genivere
Who raises Arthur?
Merlin
Who is Arthur’s illegitimate child?
Mordred
Keeper of the holy grail
Alain son of joseph, “The Rich Fischer” “Fisher King”
Arthur’s half sister
Morgan le fay
Pulled the sword from the stone
Arthur
Arthur’s father
Utter
Who gave Arthur Excalibur
In the version where the sword was in the stone, Merlin put it there. Another version holds that the lady of the lake gave Excalibur to Arthur
Who rescues Guinevere from maleagante
Lancelot
Who is the most developed character in the prologue
Wife of Bath
Never mentions Christianity in the tale
The pardoner
Who had Mallory’s work published
William Caxton
Who is a near perfect hero
Sir Gawain
Who spent 20 years in prison
Sir Thomas Mallory
Who bragged about marriages
Wife of bath
Who can be compared to the old woman
The wife of bath
Who commissioned the doomsday book
William the conqueror
Who is the innkeeper of the Canterbury tales
Chaucer
Who is the father of English poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer
Who is second most developed character
The pardoner
Which character is the product of Druid myth
The Green Knight
2 major themes of the Canterbury tales
The unfaithful wife and the patient and suffering woman
Frame for the tales
The prologue, a religious pilgrimage to Canterbury cathedral where Thomas becket was murdered centuries before. They have a competition to see who can tell the best tale brought up by the host of the tavern
How Chaucer defines his characters
Occupation but he also tries to show their best qualities
How many tales should there be and how many exist
24 exist but there should have been 116
What does the wife of bath defend and what does the old woman defend
The wife of bath defends female sexuality old woman defends poverty and low standards
What type of story is the wife of baths tale
It is a fairytale
2 types of ballads
Folk and literary ballads
Lord Randall
Folk ballad
Edward Edward
International ballad
Get up and bar the door
Folk ballad
Who defeated the Anglo-Saxon king
William the Conqueror
Brought Feudalism
William the Conqueror
Comissioned the Doomsday book
William the Conqueror
1095
Crusades start
1215
Magna Carta
1348
Plague hits England
2 changes brought by the Black Death
Freed serfs, ended fuedalism
4 literary forms of medieval literature
Epic, romances, allegories, and ballads
never mentions christianity
Pardoner
has little or no concern about Christianity
Pardoner
First serious poet
Chaucer
When was the first book published
1475
Father of English poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer
what type of story is the wife of bath’s tale
fairytale
2 types of ballads
folk and literary
The old woman defends ________ and the wife of bath defends ____
WOB defends female sexuality, old woman defends social status and poverty
How many cantebury tales should exist but how many are there
116, 24
2 major themes of the cantebury tales
The unfaithrful wife and the patient and struggling woman.
framework for the tales
prologue, 30 people on the pilgrimage to cantebury cathedral where Thomas beckett was murdered centuries ago. The innkeeper suggests a story telling competition to pass the time for the travelers.
How are the characters defined
by occupation
Lord Randall
folk ballad, conversational or international
Edward, Edward
conversational, folk
Get up and bar the door
husband and wife competition
2 things woven into Arthurian literature
mortal challenge and erotic temptation.
