Study Guide
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| Middle English Period - Medieval Period | show 🗑
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| Feudalism | show 🗑
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| show | members of the nobility to whom the King granted large tracts of land
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| show | peasants, villeins, the bottom of the social order, a class of bondsmen
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| show | a social class which included merchants, traders, laborers, and artisans
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| Vassalage | show 🗑
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| Vassal | show 🗑
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| Chivalry | show 🗑
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| show | the idealization of women and of the knights' faithful service to them formed the main code of behavior between women and their suitors; idea started in France and spread to England in 12th Century
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| Normandy | show 🗑
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| Duke of Normandy | show 🗑
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| William the Conqueror | show 🗑
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| Battle of Hastings | show 🗑
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| show | language that was spoken by the people of the court and the nobles after the Norman Conquest; it suppressed the development of the English language during this time because it was only spoken by the poor or uneducated people
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| show | Archbishop of Canterbury in 1170 who was murdered by Loyal Barons of King Henry II; the shrine of this saint was the site to which the pilgrims in The Cantebury Tales were journeying
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| show | most famous and lasting English romances about this legendary king and his knights
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| show | songs of the common people gathered by scholars from oral tradition, simple narratives in four-line stanzas that acted as entertainment and as records of events like the legend of Robin Hood's life
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| Mystery plays | show 🗑
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| show | told stories from the lives of saints
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| Morality plays | show 🗑
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| show | legislative government that was a representative ruling body
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| show | document that limited rights of the king and made him subject to rulings of Parliament and guaranteed trial by jury of peers
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| show | bubonic plague, killed one-third of England's inhabitants in mid-1300s
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| John Wycliff | show 🗑
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| show | civil war between two noble English houses - House of Lancaster, crest with red rose, fought against House of York, crest with rose; was lasted 30 years, ended with defeat of Richard III of House of Lancaster by Henry Tabor, who became King Henry VII
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| Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400) | show 🗑
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| The Canterbury Tales | show 🗑
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| show | a story that itself provides a vehicle for the telling of other stories; EX: Wizard Oz - the frame story is Dorothy, Auntie Em, and Uncle Henry; other story is Dorothy in Oz with Scarecrow, Lion, and Tin Man.
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| The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales | show 🗑
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| The Tabard | show 🗑
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| Pilgrim | show 🗑
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| Pilgrimage | show 🗑
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