Middle Ages Background Notes
"Lanval"
Gawain's shield
Elements of Medieval Romance
"SGGK"
"SGGK" more questions
Elements of Courtly Love
Ballads
Background to CANTERBURY TALES
"General Prologue"
LE MORT D'ARTHUR
"The Millere's Tale"
"The Wif of Bathe's Tale"
100
This is the name of the book that William, Duke of Normandy commissioned to inventory all of the property in his newly conquered England.
The Domesday Book
100
Lanval's lady promises her love and affection in return for this promise from him.
What is not tell anyone about her/their relationship.
100
This image is on the inside of Gawain's shield.
What is a depiction of Mary/mother of Jesus Christ.
100
Medieval Romances often repeat this number.
What is 3.
100
This is where Gawain had to go looking/found the Green Knight for their rematch.
What is the Green Chapel.
100
Arthur's relationship to Gawain.
What is uncle.
100
The Courtly Love relationship in literature was typically not between these people.
Who are man and wife.
100
In "Lord Randall", this person is guilty of poisoning the son.
Who is "his true love"/"his girlfriend"...
100
If there are 31 pilgrims, how many Tales was Chaucer PLANNING to write (FYI...he died before finishing the 25th)?
What is 124.
100
Hir coverchiefs ful fyne weren of ground;
I dorste swere they weyeden ten pound
That on a Sonday weren upon hir heed.
Hir hosen weren of fyn scarlet reed,
Ful streite yteyd, and shoes ful moyste and newe.
Who is the Wif of Bathe.
100
Who is Arthur's biological father?
Who is Uther Pendragon.
100
The parish clerk comes to woo the carpenter's wife. He asks only for this when he climbs up to her window. He gets this instead.
What is he wants a kiss; he kisses the young wife's buttocks instead because she sticks it out the window.
100
What is the Knight's offense?
What is rape.
200
The church asked for this percentage of the people's income as a tithe.
What is 10%.
200
Queen Guinevere accuses Lanval of this when he rejects her advances.
What is being a homosexual.
200
The pentangle on Gawain's shield represents Mary's 5 joys, Gawain's 5 senses, Gawain's 5 virtues, Christ's 5 wounds and this other representation of 5.
What is Gawain's 5 fingers (representation of his strength and abilities as a fighter).
200
The settings of medieval romance tend to be this.
What are imaginary and vague.
200
These two items carried were carried by the Green Knight when he enters Arthur's court.
What are a holly bob and axe.
200
This is how much time Gawain has to find and meet the Green Knight.
What is a year and a day.
200
Aside from Marie of France, which queen greatly influenced the Courtly Love genre?
Who is Eleanor of Aquitaine.
200
In "Edward, Edward", the young man is having a conversation with this person.
Who is his mother.
200
These are the female estates seen in "The General Prologue."
What are virgins, wives, and widows.
200
Benygne he was, and wonder diligent,
And in adversitee ful pacient,
And swich he was ypreved ofte sithes.
Ful looth were hym to cursen for his tithes,
But rather wolde he yeven, out of doute,
Unto his povre parisshens aboute
Of his offryng and eek of his substaunce.
Who is the Person.
200
What happens to Guinevere at the end of the story?
What is she joins a nunnery.
200
What happens to the young wife at the end of the Tale?
NOTHING! The townspeople don't believe the carpenter, and both the carpenter and the poor scholar are injured.
Think about why? What is Chaucer's purpose?
200
What is the knight's quest to find (as "punishment" for his crime)?
What is the answer to what all women desire.
300
The Magna Carta was signed by this king as a way of reining in their power/control.
Who is King John I.
300
Gawain and other knights come to check on Lanval when he's awaiting his trial to ensure this doesn't happen.
What is Lanval committing suicide/hurting himself.
300
The pentangle is symbol originating from this biblical king.
Who is Solomon.
300
Medieval Romances derive mystery and suspense from these.
What are supernatural elements.
300
Gawain goes looking for the Green Knight in which part of the country?
What is Wales.
300
This is the gift the lord's wife offers Gawain, but he rejects it.
What is a ring.
300
The Courtly Love relationship is modeled after what?
What is the feudal relationship between the knight and lord he serves.
300
In "Edward, Edward", the young man has killed his horse, his hawk, and this.
Who is his father.
300
The pilgrims in Canterbury Tales are visiting this man's grave.
Who is Thomas Beckett.
300
Wo was his cook but if his sauce were
Poynaunt and sharp, and redy al his geere.
His table dormant in his halle alway
Stood redy covered al the longe day.
Who is the Frankelain.
300
Who are the parents of Mordred?
Who are Arthur and Morgause/Maurgause
300
What does the young scholar cry out after being injured by the parish clerk?
What is "WATER!"
300
What does the knight learn from the crone that all women desire?
What is total control over their husbands/autonomy.
400
The Hundred Years War was fought between these two countries.
What is England and France.
400
Besides money, King Arthur doesn't reward Lanval with this [other "reward"] like he does other loyal knights, which shows that Lanval is out of favor.
What is a wife or land.
400
The pentangle on Gawain's shield is also called an endless "this" because each point of the star cannot stand alone (they must all be connected).
What is an endless knot.
400
The Medieval Romanic hero tends to be characterized by this descriptor regarding their identity.
What is having a concealed identify for a time.
400
The Pearl Poet
Who is the author of SGGK.
400
This is what Gawain does to avoid offending the lord's wife when she comes into his room alone.
What is pretend to sleep.
400
A knight's lovesickness in a Courtly Love relationship usually included sighing, turning pale, turning red, fever, and this.
What is an inability to sleep, eat or drink (any ONE of these is acceptable).
400
The traditional ballad includes stanzas with this many lines.
What is four.
400
The four bodily humours included blood, yellow bile, black bile, and this.
What is phlegm.
HINT: YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT THE BODILY HUMOURS REPRESENT FOR THE TEST!
400
Of his diete mesurable was he,
For it was of no superfluitee,
But of greet norissyng and digestible.
His studie was but litel on the Bible.
In sangwyn and in pers he clad was al,
Lyned with taffata and with sendal.
Who is the Doctour of Physik.
400
Where does the barge take Arthur's body?
What is Avalon.
400
What Biblical allusion is made during this story by Nicholas (similar to his prophecy)?
What is Noah and the flood?
400
What does the Old Woman expect in return for her help?
What is marriage.
500
These are the class levels found in the early Middle Ages.
500
Marie of France likely wrote these lais for this Medieval king.
Who is King Henry II.
500
One point of Gawain's pentangle represents the 5 knightly virtues. These include generosity, piety, chivalry, friendliness (fellowship) and this.
What is chastity.
500
The Medieval Romantic hero does this before he "claims his right."
What is meet an extraordinary challenge.
500
These are the animals (in order) that the lord of the castle hunts while Gawain stays in the castle with the lord's wife.
What are a deer, a boar, and a fox.
500
This is the name of the Green Knight/lord of the castle.
What is Sir Bertilak.
500
The idea of a lovesick knight derived from this Latin poet.
Who is Ovid.
500
Which of the following is NOT an element of a ballad?
repetition, dialogue, simple language, abcb stanza, or a first person narrator
What is first person narrator.
500
Besides poet, what other job has Chaucer held?
Soldier, Courtier, Diplomat, Government official, Justice of the Peace, Member of Parliament
500
Upon the cop right of his nose he hade
A werte, and theron stood a toft of herys,
Reed as the brustles of a sowes erys;
His nosethirles blake were and wyde.
Who is the Millere.
500
In what city does Merlin place the infamous "sword in the stone"?
What is London.
500
What is the genre of this Tale?
What is a Fabliaux/bawdy tale?
500
What choice does the crone/old woman give the knight at the end of the story?
What is she can stay old and ugly but loyal or be young and beautiful but disloyal.