Medieval British History 1
The first ruler of Norman England, crowned in 1066.
Who is William I, or William the Conqueror
Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in this language. Be specific.
What is Middle English?
Historically significant document presented to King John in 1215 that limited the king's power, gave more rights to the common people and paved the way for the establishment of Parliament.
What is the Magna Carta?
This travel event provides the primary framework for The Canterbury Tales.
What is a pilgrimage?
This type of satire appeals to a reader or viewer's sense of anger rather than his sense of humor.
What is Juvenalian satire?
Pyramidal socioeconomic & political structure established in Britain by the conquering Normans.
What is feudalism?
Chaucer came from this socioeconomic class, but became a member of King Edward III's royal court.
What is the middle class?
A highly contagious disease that reached England in 1348 and killed nearly half the population over the next few years.
What is the Black Death, or bubonic plague?
The two (2) most common themes in The Canterbury Tales
What are
1. social class
2. corruption of religious figures
Chaucer created the poetic form of two rhyming lines of five stressed syllables each, otherwise known as this.
What is a heroic couplet?
Commissioned by William I, this book provides modern scholars with much of what is known about life in feudal Norman England: it contains much information about land, resources and population at the time.
What is the Domesday Book?
These are the years of Chaucer's life.
What is 1343?-1400?
A series of wars between England and France over disputed lands and rights to kingship. (1337-1453)
What is the Hundred Years' War?
In addition to being considered a literary masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales is also an important historical document for this reason.
What is providing a detailed, realistic record of ordinary life in fourteenth century England.
What is the Great Vowel Shift?
He was the Archbishop of Canterbury martyred by knights of King Henry II in 1170.
Who is Thomas Becket?
Chaucer's literary epithet (nickname).
What is "the father of English poetry."
A series of civil wars between two royal English families, the Yorks and the Lancasters, between 1455 and 1485.
What were the Wars of the Roses?
BONUS (100 pts.): Why was this series of conflicts called the Wars of the Roses?
These are two of the corrupt religious figures from The Canterbury Tales.
Who are
1. the monk 2. the prioress 3. the friar
4. the pardoner 5. the summoner
This type of satire is humorous and mild in its critiques.
What is Horatian satire?
A series of eight wars from 1095 to 1291 between Christians and Muslims over control of lands, especially Jerusalem, considered holy to both factions.
What were the Crusades?
Chaucer's writing was influenced by the poets of these two countries.
What are France and Italy?
The outcome of the Wars of the Roses led to the coronation of Henry VII, the founder of this dynasty that would rule England for more than a century.
What is the Tudor dynasty?
BONUS: Henry VII's son and granddaughter also became rulers of England. Can you name them? (50 points each)
Of the first six characters described in the General Prologue, this is the only one presented in an overtly positive way.
Who is the knight?
This type of satire ridicules a particular ideology or belief system.
What is Menippean satire?
BONUS: In one word, what is the ultimate goal of satire?