Art
During the Middle Ages, where would you find art in most cases? (the three "c")
churches, cathedrals, castles
What was the period before the Middle Ages in England called?
The Anglo-Saxon Period (650-1066)
Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows ordinary grammatical structure and natural flow of speech.
What is Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales about? (be as precise as possible)
It is a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims traveling (each story reflecting various social classes and life experiences).
What was Chaucer's most characteristic feature when it comes to forms of writing?
Irony
What type of painting was popular during the Middle Ages, has been extremely difficult to preserve, and is slowly disappearing?
In what year did the Norman Conquest begin?
What is the difference between prose and poetry in terms of the meaning of words?
In prose, words are clear and direct whereas in poetry, they usually have multiple meanings.
What are anonymous and mostly orally produced poems called? They were very popular during the Middle Ages.
ballads
What did the Prologues in The Canterbury Tales reveal?
Information about the narrator (consciously or unconsciously).
What are the two types of architecture that were highly important during the Middle Ages?
medieval castles and great cathedrals
What was the name of the series of military campaigns initiated by European Christians to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslim control, starting in 1096?
The Crusades
What do prose and poetry have in common? Name 2 aspects.
use of literary devices, colloquialism, ability to tell stories, show - don't tell, musicality
What is the title of the medieval epic poem that tells the story of a hero and his battles against the monster Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and a dragon?
Beowulf
Name 3 themes that were most frequently explored in The Canterbury Tales.
love, money, justice, (the use of) magic
What type of music was John Cotton best known for?
What was the name of the 1348–1350 pandemic that killed a large portion of Europe’s population?
The (Bubonic/Black) Plague
What is meant by "nouns and verbs are close together" in prose?
The sentence structure is simple (action follows the subject directly and there are no intentional line breaks). In poetry the nouns and verbs are separated according to meter, rhyme, additional description (adjectives, adverbs, etc.) and line breaks.
Name 2 titles of Chaucer's tales.
The Doctor and the Prioress
What does Wycliffe have in common with Chaucer's Prioress?
They both attack religious orders.
Romanesque and Gothic
Which 1215 document, signed by King John of England, is considered a foundational document for modern democracy, limiting the power of the monarchy?
The Magna Carta
Who was very famous for his religious prose and used it to oppose the (Catholic) Church? (Also called the spiritual father of Protestantism aka the original hater)
John Wycliffe
Which 12th-century work, written by Chrétien de Troyes, is considered one of the earliest and most influential romances of Arthurian legend, featuring a knight?
Lancelot (the Knight of the Cart)
What does the first initial letter in The Canterbury Tales contain?
Chaucer's portrait!