Literary Works and Religions
Even though Christ was born and died in this era, the people, particularly of Greece and Rome, were polytheistic.
Classical
This is the language that Antigone was originally written in.
Greek
This pestilence hit the Middle Ages hard, and it was featured in some of the works we read.
The Black Plague
This epic hero was not afraid to boast of his successes and fight Grendel with his bare hands.
Beowulf
This number is repeated a lot in medieval stories as an homage to the belief in the trinity.
3
This text we read has hints of both paganism and Christianity, marking the shift from polytheism to monotheism
Beowulf
This is the language that Beowulf was originally composed in.
Old English
We did a recreation of this special place in Anglo-Saxon culture--a location of safety, entertainment, and community.
mead hall
This character was punished because she chose to follow her religion over her uncle's law.
Antigone
These stories with non-tragic endings were written in the languages of the people rather than Latin.
comedies
This hellish work, though written in the Italian Renaissance, we studied during the medieval period as it was written in the 1300s when England had not yet entered the Renaissance.
Dante's Inferno
This was the language that Chaucer and medieval English writers wrote in.
Middle English
This religious figure's birth influences how we count time (B.C./A.D.)
Jesus Christ
This nephew of Arthur had to go on a chivalric quest in a battle against magical forces.
Sir Gawain
This principle influenced the time, place, and action of a story.
unity
In this era, church and state were completely unified through the feudal system of government.
Medieval
Reflecting his culture's values, even that of boasting, Beowulf was this sort of hero.
Epic hero
This tax book of William the Conqueror made Anglo-Saxon taxpayers really feel like it was the end of the world.
Domesday Book
This playwright, often confused with Socrates, is the author of the three Theban plays.
Sophocles
This descriptive short phrase or nickname was common in Anglo-Saxon poetry.
kenning
Oedipus, the father of Antigone, received warnings from this prophet who also appears in the third play of the triology, Antigone. Hint: he is also found in Dante's Inferno with the Diviners.
Tiresias
While Antigone was a tragic hero, Gawain was this type of hero.
Medieval romance
This Nordic group launched attacks on the Anglo-Saxons, events featured in The Last Kingdom.
Vikings
This London author also fought in the Hundred Years War.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Divided up by strophes and antistrophes rather than scenes and acts, Greek plays are laid out using this.
Choral structure