What is the year of the Norman Invasion or the Battle of Hastings?
100
an allegory
What is Everyman?
100
This is another name for the Plague.
What is the Black Death?
100
He wrote Le Morte d'Arthur. His claim to fame was that he compiled and arranged the stories of the Arthurian legend.
Who is Sir Thomas Malory?
200
Two characteristics of the medieval ballad.
song-like (rhythm and rhyme),
passed by word of mouth from person to person,
present a single dramatic episode,
may convey an air of mystery because of info. left out
200
"The once and future king"--if he existed at all, he was probably a Celtic chieftain.
Who was King Arthur?
200
This work is written primarily in heroic verse.
What are The Canterbury Tales?
200
The three languages that comprise Middle English.
What are Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, and Latin?
200
He's considered the Father of English Poetry.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
300
This type of literature concerns chivalrous adventures.
What is the medieval romance?
300
The civil wars between the houses of York and Lancaster.
What were the Wars of the Roses?
300
January and May
What is The Merchant's Tale?
300
Name for the hierarchal socioeconomic system of Medieval society.
What is feudalism?
300
The author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is known as the _____________ Poet.
What is Pearl?
400
A line or part of a line that is repeated throughout a poem in the same position in the majority of stanzas.
What is a refrain?
400
The Great Charter, said by some to signal the beginning of constitutional government.
What is the Magna Carta?
400
Arveragus, Aurelius, Dorigen.
What is The Franklin's Tale?
400
To which Canterbury Tale pilgrim does the following refer? "By his bed / He preferred having twenty books in red / And black, Of Aristotle's philosophy, / Than costly clothers, fiddle or psaltery."
Who is the Oxford Cleric?
400
He invented a process of movable type.
Who is Gutenberg?
500
The difference between a morality play and a mystery/miracle play.
Whereas the mystery/miracle play is a literal representation of a Bible story or the life of a saint, the morality play is ostensibly less "religious" in nature, focusing instead on general moral principles.
500
This king was indirectly responsible for the murder of Thomas Beckett, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Who is Henry II?
500
The Canterbury Tale whose lesson is that greed is the root of all evil.
What is The Pardoner's Tale?
500
To which Canterbury Tales pilgrim does this quote refer? "He made his household free to all the County. / His bread, his ale were finest of the fine / And no one had a better stock of wine."