Chaucer
Chaucer wrote this type of satire.
What is estates satire?
Beowulf is this type of poem.
What is a heroic epic?
This religious character was a hunter, despite it being forbidden by those in his profession.
Who is the Monk?
This is the central organizing feature of a personal narrative.
What is tension?
This woman is King Hrothgar's wife in Beowulf.
Who is Wealtheow?
Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in this language.
What is Middle English?
What is Geatland (or Sweden)?
This is the number of tales each pilgrim was to tell on the way to and from Canterbury.
What is 2 tales on the way up, and two tales on the way home.
This kind of abstract word calls to mind specific memories for a particular generation of people.
What is a memory soaked word?
Beowulf was originally written down in this language.
What is Old English?
Chaucer wrote for this/these social class(es).
What are all social classes?
Beowulf comes to the aid of what king?
Who is Hrothgar, king of the Danes?
This person proposed that the pilgrims tell stories on their trip to Canterbury.
Who is the host, Harry Bailly?
What is the resolution?
These are the 3 social estates of medieval England.
What are the Church, Nobility & Peasantry?
Chaucer was captured in this war.
What is the Hundred Years' War?
This Geat comes to Beowulf's aid to help him slay the dragon.
Who is Wiglaf?
This was the husband that Alys truly loved.
Who is her fifth husband, Jankin?
This kind of concrete word reveals a person's "status life."
What is a revelatory word?
These are the three estates that, aside from the social estates, women also belonged to during medieval times.
What are virgin, wife and widow?
Chaucer was born and died in these years.
What is 1343-1400?
What is 12?
This is the Wife of Bath's response to her 4th husband cheating on her.
What is she leads him to believe she is also having an extra marital affair.
"And then chronology" is a kind of story that is lacking this element.
What is connectedness?
This is what Wiglaf represents in Beowulf.
What is the ideal Anglo-Saxon warrior?