Canterbury Tales Mid Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Middle English Period - Medieval Period | 1066-1485 AD |
| Feudalism | a system of political organization where all land ultimately belonged to the king |
| Barons | members of the nobility to whom the King granted large tracts of land |
| Serfs | peasants, villeins, the bottom of the social order, a class of bondsmen |
| Freeman | a social class which included merchants, traders, laborers, and artisans |
| Vassalage | the idea that each person is bound by a system of loyalties to some person higher in social class; example, Serf is vassal to nobleman, who is vassal to a duke, who is vassal to an earl, who is vassal to the King |
| Vassal | servant |
| Chivalry | comes from French word cheval meaning horse, reflects the fact that knights fought on horseback; code of knightly behavior which included loyalty and valor on and off battlefield, pledged service and deep respect to a lady |
| Courtly love | 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 |
| Normandy | land of the north men, area on the northern coast of France that was invaded by the Danes |
| Duke of Normandy | William the Conqueror |
| William the Conqueror | in 1066 invaded England from Normandy; took over the English throne by defeating King Harold II who had succeeded Edward the Confessor |
| Battle of Hastings | 1066 - William the Conqueror versus Harold II |
| Norman French | 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 |
| St Thomas a Becket | 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 |
| King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table | most famous and lasting English romances about this legendary king and his knights |
| Ballads | 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 |
| Mystery plays | told stories from the Bible |
| Miracle plays | told stories from the lives of saints |
| Morality plays | represented abstract virtues and vices through characters |
| Parliament | legislative government that was a representative ruling body |
| Magna Carta - great charter | document that limited rights of the king and made him subject to rulings of Parliament and guaranteed trial by jury of peers |
| Black Death | bubonic plague, killed one-third of England's inhabitants in mid-1300s |
| John Wycliff | religious reformer who did first complete translation of Bible into English so that ordinary people could read and interpret text on their own |
| War of the Roses | 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 |
| Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400) | public servant and poet - most important writer of Middle English Period; author of The Canterbury Tales |
| The Canterbury Tales | written by Geoffrey Chaucer, collection of tales written around a frame story; Chaucer planned to write 124 tales; however, only 24 were completed before his death |
| Frame story/tale | 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. |
| The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales | is a frame story about each of the pilgrims going on a journey; the other stories are the tales that the pilgrims tell |
| The Tabard | the hostelry, hotel, or inn in which the pilgrims all meet before their pilgrimage |
| Pilgrim | a person who went on a religious journey |
| Pilgrimage | a journey or trip for a religious purpose (usually for religious renewal) |
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