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English 2322 Questions and answers latest update
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English 2322 Questions and answers latest update
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English 2322Alfred the Great ANS✔✔ The greatest of Anglo Saxon kings, was once
illiterate buy commissioned texts and writings in an attempt to restore the arts,
defeated the Danes
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ANS✔✔ Native language;
collection of annuals (events chronologically) of Anglo-Saxon history; before,
during, and after the Norman conquest
Thomas Becket ANS✔✔ (St. Thomas from C. Tales) the saint that told Henry
II that god's word was more important than the governments; died in
Cathedral (1170); execution ordered by Henry II
Black Death ANS✔✔ 1348-1400, wiped out more than half of the European
population
Bob and wheel ANS✔✔ Several lines of alliteration end in a word or phrase
of two syllables (The Bob)
Bob is followed by a quatrain, 4 lines (The Wheel)
Bob & Wheel rhyme scheme is ababa
Canute ANS✔✔ Danish king of England who went crazy; "The great king",
king of Denmark, England, Norway, and some of Sweden; referred to as Anglo-
Scandinavian
, William Caxton ANS✔✔ 1422 - 1492
* Brought the printing press to England from Germany
* Increased literacy and made it more marketable
* 1st opportunity for mass produced writing
* printed and renamed Malory's Arthurian Romances
* printed Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Celts & Picts ANS✔✔ Earliest tribes in Britain
Geoffrey Chaucer ANS✔✔ Marked end of Middle Ages in 1400; Father of
English poetry
Chivalric code ANS✔✔ Conduct of knights in medieval Europe
1. honor to friend/foe
2. chased admiration (protect women)
3. be very religious
4. courtly love (women have authority on relationships)
Clerics ANS✔✔ Priest with supernatural healing powers
Comitatus ANS✔✔ Band of kinsman;
German friendship structure that compelled kings to rule in consultation
(warband/Beowulf thanes)
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