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The Anglo-Saxons
Language
Miscellaneous
From Which Story?
Influential Dudes
100
This set of values outlined the behavior which the socially dominant class approved of as fitting for an Anglo-Saxon warrior.
What is the heroic code?
100
The name "English" is derived from the name of this Germanic tribe.
Who are the Angles?
100
A cultural and intellectual movement in Italy--a rebirth of the arts started by the recovery of artifacts and pagan classics
What is the Renaissance?
100
"A light appeared and the place brightened the way the sky does when heaven's candle is shining clearly. He inspected the vault: with sword held high, its hilt raised to guard and threaten."
What is Beowulf?
100
William Caxton introduced this technological innovation into England in 1476.
What is the printing press?
200
Hengist, the Anglo-Saxon leader who ruled for 33 years in Britain, established Anglo-Saxon rule in England after he and his men did what during a peace conference with the English?
What is massacre the unarmed English in The Night of the Long Knives?
200
For 300 years after the Normans invaded Britain, kings and nobility spoke this language.
What is Anglo-Norman French?
200
This dominant social system in medieval Europe left little room for mobility.
What is Feudalism?
200
"And never since was there never seen a more dolefuller battle in no Christian land, for there was but rushing and riding, foining, and striking; and many a grim word was there spoken of either to other, and many a deadly stroke."
What is Morte D'Arthur?
200
This man was down with burning Protestants but paid a high price for his opposition to anti-Catholic policies.
Who is Thomas More?
300
This king/English monarch implemented a system of education that taught English first and Latin second. He translated important Latin texts into English and gave them to nobles, signifying that knowledge is treasure.
Who is Alfred the Great?
300
This linguistic shift that moved Middle English toward Modern English happened within the relatively short space of a century or two.
What is The Great Vowel Shift?
300
This conflict gave Britons a sense of national identity so that they no longer thought of themselves as Anglo-Norman.
What is the Hundred Years' War?
300
"So expect no malice; for if I'd slogged here tonight to slay and slaughter my helmet and hauberk wouldn't be at home and my sword and spear would be here at my side and more weapons of war, as I'm sure you're aware; I'm clothed for peace, not kitted out for conflict."
What is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
300
John Tetzel's selling of these in the Church moved Martin Luther to write the 95 Theses.
What are Indulgences?
400
The burial of the Anglo Saxon ship, mentioned in the Beowulf text, was found at this site in Suffolk, England.
What is Sutton Hoo?
400
Beowulf contains an extraordinary number of what linguists call ________, words recorded only once in a language.
What is hapax legomena?
400
This event broke western Christendom into factions.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
400
"But if the disease is not only incurable but excruciatingly and constantly painful, then the priests and public officials come and urge the invalid not to endure such agony any longer."
What is Utopia?
400
Politically, what happened in England that fostered the flowering of the Renaissance and Humanism?
What is Henry the VIII created political stability?
500
The Anglo-Saxon invaders brought with them a tradition of what kind of poetry? (Three descriptors).
What is oral, alliterative, heroic poetry?
500
This way of thinking began to challenge the entrenched preeminence of Latin as the core educational language
What is Renaissance Humanism?
500
These are the three estates that represent the main social classes of Chaucer's time.
What are the Church, Nobility, and Peasantry?
500
"Yet I could see signs of ancient strife: beneath that god it had begun bleeding on the right side. I was all bereft with sorrows; that splendid sight made me afraid. I beheld the sign rapidly changing clothing and colors. Now it was covered with moisture, drenched with streaming blood, now decked in treasure."
What is "The Dream of the Rood"?
500
These men were independent land owners and replaced the Knight as a symbol of military might.
What are the Yeomen?