Quiz 9 Flashcards
T/F: People were accustomed to having rats and flees almost everywhere
True
T/F: During the plague, both divine and civil law were stringently enforced
False
In what country was the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381?
England
If the English won most battles during the Hundred years war, why did they withdraw in 1429?
the financial and physical burden was too great
Which proved more detrimental to Church prestige the Avignon Papacy or the Great Schism?
The Great Schism
What term is used to describe the emergence in art and literature of “a new fidelity to nature and to personal experience in the everyday world?
social realism
According to Filippa, whose consent must a just law have?
those who are affected
According to de Pisan, why do women usually know less than men?
they didnt have as many opportunities
What event in 1204/05 led to the linguistic assimilation of the Norman nobility in England?
King John lost to French King
In what year did Edward III change the official language of the courts of law back to English?
1362
What percentage of Anglo-Saxon words survived into middle english?
25%
“Alliterative Revival” poets delineated line length with four stressed syllables. How does Chaucer indicate the end of a line?
Rhyme with five beats per line
What are the two basic steps in Chaucers strategy of humor?
- Positive Generality
2. Specifics that may be negative
T/F: The 24 tales Chaucer completed reflect a narrow range of story types and possible narrators
False
With what is the Knights tunic all stained?
his rusty mailcoat
What did the squire write?
songs
For what did the Prioress cry “if it bled or was dead”?
a mouse caught in a trap
What did the Friar do “For private begging turf”?
he laid out rent
Of any money the student scraped together, on what did “it got spent”?
on books and learning
What would the wives of the five Guildsmen like “to be named”?
my lady
With whom did the Doctor of Medicine have a profitable “friendship… not recently begun”?
his apothocaries
How many times had the wife of bath been married?
5
How did the Parson show “how his sheep should live”?
by his own cleanliness
What did it mean for the Miller to have “a thumb of gold,all right”
he was dishonest
