Medieval vocab
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- Liege lord
- a lord who oversaw a groups of vassals and offered them protection in return for their work
- Beowulf
- the most famous work written in Old english
- Celts
- the earliest known inhabitants of england: defeated by germanic invaders
- Medieval romance
- stories told about knights and their heroic chivalric deeds
- vassal
- a peasant who worked the land of a liege lord in return form protection
- Old english
- the language spoken by the germanic invaders of england in the 5th century CE
- troubadour
- wandering singer who would bring news form town to town in the form of songs grand stories
- William Shakespeare
- a writer who wrote in the early modern english
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- writer who wrote in the Middle English, the author of the Canterbury tale: often called father of English literature
- Angles, Saxons, Jutes
- Germanic tribes which invaded england in 499 C.E.
- vernacular
- common language spoken by a group of people
- the canterbury tales
- the most famous work written in Middle english
- William the conqueror
- the person who led the normans in their conquest of england
- Proto-Indo-European
- the language that was a result of the blending of Old english and norman french
- quest
- a romantic journey made by a knight
- Emperor Charlemagne
- The king of the franks
- Normans
- people from northern france who invaded england in 1066 C>E.
- Code of Chivalry
- a set of rules or a code that knights lived by
- Middle English
- the language that was a result of the blending of old english and noman french
- King Arthur
- a semi-mythical king about whom many famous stories are written