Literature
Poets and Troubadours
Country life
City life
A Day in the life
100
All the written works a civilization produces.
What is literature?
100
Most people could not do this in medieval times.
What is read?
100
Most medieval people worked on these.
What are farms?
100
This was a constant danger in medieval cities.
What is fire?
100
In the country, people ate unusual foods like bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and this fruit for a snack known for making you cry.
What is a onion?
200
These were poems about warrior-heroes.
What are epics?
200
Some decrees and announcements were written in this type of writing style.
What is rhyme?
200
A type of beer that most people drank in the middle ages.
What is ale?
200
These two cities became the largest cities in western Europe.
What are London and Paris?
200
Normally in medieval times this local sound woke the people up and kept them on schedule thoughout the day. (DONG!)
What is an abbey bell?
300
Hagiographies are stories about these people.
Who are saints?
300
A kind of wandering poet who would perform to the nobility with a lute or some kind of musical instrument.
What is a troubadour?
300
Most land in the Middle Ages was owed by these people.
What are the nobility?
300
Craftsmen who had messier or smellier trades lived here.
Where is outside the city walls?
300
This was the most valueable animal for it was very hardworking and helpful to a farming family.
What is an ox?
400
Do not let the name fool you. Tales of romance were often about proving ones self in war or by going on one of these.
What is a quest?
400
Writen around 1400, this was a collection of diverse short stories by Geoffrey Chaucer.
What are the Canterbury Tales?
400
What most medieval people did or where they lived determined their ___.
What is last name?
400
A group of master craftsmen who set standards of quality and pricing for certain products.
What are guilds?
400
In medieval times one family would be in charge of multiple farms, but would often leave one farm this to let it gain nutrients.
What is blank?
500
Some of the earliest medieval French literature was called this French phrase that means "Tales of Deeds"
What is chansons de geste?
500
The Divine Comedy, one of the most famous works of the Middle ages, was written by this famous poet.
Who is Dante Alighieri?
500
Peasants who did not own their farms worked for their lord and were bound to their land. They were called these. (Cowabunga!!)
What are serfs?
500
A serf could be released of his duties if he remained in the city for this long.
What is one year?
500
The roads in medieval times were very treacherous so many people only wandered this far from home.
What is 20 miles?