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Midterm Flashcards

1
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Define Vernacular

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Natural, everyday language

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2
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Troubadour?

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Maker

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3
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Joglar?

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Sang the Troubadour’s songs

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4
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Trobairitz?

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Female troubadour

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5
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What was the vernacular for 12th Century Troubadours?

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Old Occitan

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6
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What is fin’ amor and courtly love balancing?

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Politics and eroticism, sentiment and power

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7
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Canso

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Prominent form of poetry, erotic love, end rhyme scheme carried throughout poem

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8
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Romance

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Narrative Poem; secular narrative of knights on an adventure

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9
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Alba

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Dawn Song

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10
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Pastorela

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Narrates an encounter between two social unequals

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11
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Tenso

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Allows two speakers to exchange contrasting views on a topic (Courtly Love, poetry, etc.) “Which of the two behaved most fittingly?

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12
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Eleanor of Aquitane’s children’s names?

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Marie de Champagne (Louis VII) and Richard the Lion Hearted (Henry II)

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13
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Guigemar

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Wounded the heart, happily ever after

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14
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Lanval

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Mystical goddess beloved, at end went to Avalon

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15
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Code of Ethics?

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Chivalry

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16
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Chivalry made up of?

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Loyalty, courtesy, service to women, military prowess

17
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Blazon

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Description/ Depiction of one body in particular, especially eyes

18
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True Love is

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Unsinful, transformative, liberating, powerful, a creative force, not possessed in the real world

19
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Yonec

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His dad was hawk man, his mom Madame le Faintress

20
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Lauestic

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Loved his neighbors wife, carried their nightingale’s corpse around in a bejeweled casket fiveeva

21
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Chaitivel

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The Unfortunate One, of the Four Sorrows

22
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Irony

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Discrepancy twixt reality and expectations

23
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What is THE ART OF COURTLY LOVE?

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Satire/ Parody; rule book; treatise (essay of explanation); dialogue; Rhetorical situation (Walter and Narrator)

24
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Why was ART OF COURTLY LOVE written?

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Reconciliation of two duties? Pointing out how much of a fantasy CL is due to its idealism and unattainability? Satire of both sides? A warning to the powerful? Attempt to bring the whole movement down?

25
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Brother Joy, Sister Pleasure of which fairy tale?

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SLEEPING BEAUTY

26
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Magical elements of BJSP?

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The post- mortum impregnation of Sister Pleasure, The talking and advising Jay,

27
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Satire

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Literary attack on human folly or vanity through humor

28
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Romance Conventions

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A Quest; lengthy, digressive narrative; emphasis on the journey; magical/ supernatural events & characters

29
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Myth of Hero

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Obscure origin; vincibile; his way is often obscure; has a goal; is accompanied by friends, servants, or disciples; descends to darkness and is not same after rescension; what he seeks is a symbol of what he needs; suffers (a) wound(s)

30
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Why would de Troyes make Lance a religious figure?

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Teaching mode? Cover up? Warning? Negative illustration?

31
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Sonnet formula?

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Fourteen lines, established a problem which’s resolved in the heroic couplet

32
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Conceit

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Extended metaphor

33
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Why write a sonnet?

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  1. Immortalize the beloved 2. Psych of Love 3. Express Frustration 4. Tell relationship story 5. Shows off Poetic Skill 6. Is short hand for love
34
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Two most important Platonic Philosophers?

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Aristophones and Socrates

Other Half vs. Non-phys search for knowledge

35
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What is the name and purpose of Socrates young Lover?

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Alcibiades, he proves that Socrates is the ideal courtly lover, he who has transcended the material and physical realm to something of higher sustenance

36
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Define Eros

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Desire in sexual or passionate sense

37
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Socrates love is?

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A virtuous and productive force.

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