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| In SGGK, the ___ and ____ symbolize unity |
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| "Critiques the values of the Arthurian court" |
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| "______ to test chivalry of Arthur’s court" (SGGK) |
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| Gawain’s unchivalrous behavior is______ |
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| in hiding girdle from Bertilak |
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| Three exchanges of kisses/hunting spoils |
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| Told to/written down by two priests |
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| First autobiography (at least sorta) |
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| Mistrusted by others who don’t understand her tears |
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| Margery (primary manifestation of affective piety) |
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| laywoman, wife, mother of 14 |
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| Has visions of God, Jesus, Mary and other saints |
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| Feels Jesus is alive in her present moment |
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| Attempting to become wife to Christ |
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| Margery (and born again virgin) |
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| Anchoress—walled up in a cell |
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| Where is Julian "walled up"? |
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| God shows her the world in his hand, the size of a _____ |
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| English retelling of the classical story of Orpheus and Eurydice |
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| In Sir Orfeo, Eurydice becomes Queen ___ |
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| Heurydis stolen by ___ (work?) |
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| Orfeo becomes “___” in grief |
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| Recue of Heurydis allows _____ |
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| Monsters (__,___,__) organize story |
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| Beowulf - Grendel, Grendel’s mother, dragon |
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| Closeness of humans and monsters |
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| Treasure, blood revenge, tribal loyalty |
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| Clash of pagan and Christian themes |
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| Collection of stories, like Boccaccio’s Decameron |
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| Three estates: nobility, clergy, everyone else—including burgeoning middle class |
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| ___always references his own poetic project |
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| CT: Miller (NAME) tells a WHAT |
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| ___: the knight’s courtly love romance |
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| Carpenter NAME has young, beautiful wife, NAME, who falls in love with their boarder, NAME, and is wooed by another clerk, NAME |
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| John, Alisoun, Clerk Nicholas, Absolon (Miller's Tale) |
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| Mocking the credulous carpenter John, who believes Noah’s flood will come again---reference to ____ |
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| Punishments don’t necessarily fit crimes |
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| ___, _th husband, hit her with his book of wicked wives and made her “somdeel deaf” |
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| quotes the texts for her own purposes—shows she has both experience, in the form of 5 husbands, and also authority to interpret texts |
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| Church fathers who preach against remarriage and lechery |
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| Autobiography NOT Margery |
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| Rood and The Wanderer are in what kind of verse? |
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| cross on which Christ was crucified |
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| Dreamer falls asleep and dreams conversation with the personified rood |
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| ____ honored to do service to Christ |
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| Christ and cross both ____; beautiful, gem-covered cross also _____ |
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| pierced with nails; stained with Christ’s blood |
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| At the end of the Rood, what happens? |
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| Dreamer reflects on vision |
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| Knight (Milun) and unnamed lady have illicit child, correspond via __ for __ yrs |
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| Milun eventually meets son how? |
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| How is Milun's family ultimately reunited? |
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| Speaker has spent years in exile, is now lamenting the loss of his lord/fellows |
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| “Ubi sunt” motif—where are they now? |
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| Also a poem about the wisdom gained from years in exile, from looking back on his life |
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| Christian reflection; poem ends with positive look toward Christian salvation after death |
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| What do all women want, according to WT? |
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| "maistrye" or sovereignty |
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| Loathly lady gives knight what choice? |
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| she’ll be old, ugly, and loyal, or young, fair, and disloyal |
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| 1st 18 lines of CT general prologue = ? |
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| the language of courtly literature |
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| CT Gen Prologue AFTER 18th line = ? |
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| drops into a tone of city realism |
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| CT Prologue describes about # pilgrims, not including narrator, so theoretically there should be # tales (but only # in reality) |
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| Host ___ will control the storytelling competition, try to control social order |
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| Chevrefoil is part of the much longer tale of WHAT? |
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| Marie isolates the moment when _____ |
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| Tristan waits in the woods for a secret glimpse of Isolde, carves his name on a tree for her to see |
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| about symbolism, authority, crafting of stories |
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| authored by “Wakefield master” |
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| What is a mystery play? And which text does it describe? |
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| part of a cycle of plays telling all of Christian history, from Creation to Judgment Day, SSP |
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| Mystery plays were put on by ____, performed around ___ |
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| trade guilds; feast of Corpus Christi every year |
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| Mystery plays combine __ with ___ |
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| civic with Christian concerns—shepherds complain of weather, poor wages, hunger, etc. |
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| 900 lines of farce before 200 lines of Christian history— |
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| Mak and Gill (or Jill) hide sheep in cradle, parodying birth of Christ |
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| Lanval critiques values of Arthurian court by ____ |
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| showing a worthy knight, Lanval, ignored |
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| Lanval and his queen leave to live in ___, the fairy land |
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