Semester Flashcards
Property, military, social
Feudalism
Established basis for constitutional law
Meagan Carta
Attempt to free Jerusalem from from Turkish control. They failed but they were exposed to middle easts sophisticated civilization
Crusades
War waged by England against France. After the war English was represented by the yeomen and their arrows
The Hundred Years’ War
Reflect some of: supernatural events, sensational, sorrow, or tragic subject matter, refrain, omission of detail
Ballads
Everyday language spoken in London and East Midlands
Vernacular used by Chaucer
Father of English poetry
Chaucer
Story that in less any number of different narratives
Frame story used by Chaucer
Narrative set in a world of pure wish fulfillment, where idealized and superhuman heroes fight and almost always conquer the forces of evil
Romance
Repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines
Refrain
Near perfect hero An evil enemy Quest Test of the hero Supernatural elements Good vs evil Female figures
Elements of romance
Larger than life figure who usually has mysterious origins and in the course of his life performs extraordinary deeds with the aid of magic forces
Romance hero (Aurthur)
Uh sound
Schwa (e)
Wrote poem for wife telling her not to fret when de died bc they wouldn’t be separated. Used metaphysical conceits
A valediction: forbidding mourning
John Donne
Do the ends justify the means?
Questionable ethics
Total control and power
Niccoló Machavialli
Prince
Machiavellian
Ninety-five theses
Many religious practices arose
New theology
Reformation reflected in literature
Martin Luther
Allusion to Hemingway
The word and universe are affected. Birth and death are an entrance to a different community
God is are only security
Meditation 17 John Donne
Apostrophe- refers to Death an abstract being.
He says we don’t need to fear death, it is death who dies. There is no such thing as death bc of afterlife
Death be not proud
John Donne
The house of Tudor brought peace to the land and introduced???
Reformation and Renaissance to England
Birth of Modern English
The Great Vowel Shift
Deus Es machina
God from the machine. An artificial devise arbitrarily used to resolve plot
Plays before Renaissance
Miracle and mystery: taught ppl stories from bible
Morality: taught ppl how to live and die
Interlude: one act plays
9 Greek Goddesses of inspiration
Muse
