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- 55 BC
- Cesar comes to britain
- 409 ad
- death of king arthur
- 1066 ad
- battle of hastings
- 1387 ad
- canterburty tales written
- prowess
- great fighting skills; knowledge of weapons;power
- honor
- great deeds to defend king of country
- liberality
- known for generosity
- glory
- relating to the crusades and achiveing great deeds in war; for self
- loyalty
- remaing true towards country, king,lord, church, and to their word
- courtly love
- chivalry,courtesy
- pilgrimages
- to canterbury cathedral b/c thomas beckett was marted there. and to gain spiritual benefit.
- good deeds (everyman)
- only one to stay with everyman to the end
- everyman
- makes god look as though hes not all powerful. he sends death to do what he cant.
- altruistic
- unselfish, concerned with the welfare of others
- amend
- to change in a formal way; to change for the better
- ascertain
- to find out
- augment
- to make larger;increase
- averse
- having a deep-seated distaste; opposed; unwilling
- chivalrous
- marked by honor, courtesy, and courage; knightly
- comprise
- to include or contain; to be made up of
- dearth
- a lack, scarcity of; a famine
- deft
- skillful, nimble
- feasible
- possible, able to be done
- finite
- having limits; lasting for a limited time
- inclement
- stormy, harsh; severe in attitude or action
- negligible
- so unimportant that it can be disregarded
- nostalgia
- longing for something past; homesickness
- punitive
- inflicting or aiming at punishment
- reiterate
- to say again, repeat
- solace
- comfort, relieft. to console
- squalid
- filthy, wretched, debased
- tentative
- experimental in nature; uncertain, hesitant
- waive
- to do without, give up voluntarily, to put off temporarily, defer