ENGL 381 Midterm
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- DEFINITION: ING
- Son
- Importance of the connections between Beowulf and Hrothgar
- B. is repaying Hrothgar’s kindness to his father Ecgtheow, when Ecgtheow was in exile for killing a man.
- DEFINITION: Litotes
- understatement
- DEFINITION: BEOT
- English term for ritual boast, often a vow formulated via an either/or construction.
- DEFINITION: WYRD
- Fate
- oferhogode
- too proud, arrogance
- 1066
- Norman-French colonization of England. Change in Language, writing style
- Geoffrey of Monmouth
- Welsh priest, created Arthur romance
- the “Christmas gameâ€
- The challenge involves a legal contract and a test of Gawain’s trauthe personal integrity
- trauthe
- A Middle English word whose connotations encompass truth, pledged word, faithfulness between lovers, personal integrity.
- fraunchyse
- the generosity of noble man
- clannes
- bodily chastity and spiritual purity
- cortaysye
- good manner, courtliness
- pite'
- pity, piety
- fyn’amor
- Courtly love
- John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
- main patron of chaucer
- palmer
- pilgrim who has gone to Jerusalem and brought back palm leaves to commemorate the trip
- Harry Bailey
- Host of Tabard Inn in canterburry tales
- three estates
- aristocrats, members of the church, commoners
- fabliau
- a comic verse narrative generally involving non-aristocratic people in a realistic setting, often bawdy, and usually involving certain stock characters
- "The Marriage Group"
- tales told by the Wife, Clerk, Merchant, Franklin
- Exemplum
- anecdote which supports the moral arguments of a sermon
- Breton lai
- Bretons are the Celtic people of northwest France (Brittany): a lai is a brief romance focusing mainly on love and magic.
- Gentilesse
- gentle, noble behavior, the gracious and courteous manners or behavior usually associated with one who is nobly born.
- KIND
- Medieval Term for Nature
- Feast of Corpus Christi
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57 days after Easter. The feast commemorates the bodily sacrifice of Christ in his human incarnation.
celebrates God made man; - typology
- certain Old Testament events were read as imperfect prefigurations of later events in the New Testament
- The Wakefield Master
- responsible for 6 plays in Towneley cycle including 2 versions of the Shepherds' Play.
- allegory
- usually involves some kind of spiritual or psychical event being translated into other terms which invite interpretation
- 1425
- Earliest surviving morality play: The Castell of Perseveraunce.
- Bede
- wrote Ecclasiastical history of English
- Absilon
- has amazing hair=male beauty/vanity
- SCOP
- Poet
- COMITATUS
- honor code: the basic idea that everyone protects the king at all costs even if it means a warrior giving up his own life.
- definition: “quiteâ€
- repay
- outridere
- supervises the outlying estates of his monastery
- lymytour
- licensed to hear confessions, preach & beg in a certain area. (Friar in Chaucer)
- riche gnof
- boorish, dumb person (carpenter from miller's tale)
- hende
- handy, courteous, skillful
- Glose
- Flatter, coax
- Aurelius
- character in franklin's tale
- Dorigen
- character in franklin's tale
- trouther
- pledged word
- maistrye
- the power to control a realtionship
- Free (in franklin's tale)
- liberty or generosity
- Arvegas
- character in franklin's tale
- Thomas a Becket
- Saint who inspires travel to canterbury