Medevial Times
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- feudalism
- nobody owned land independently,
- wars of the roses
- a civil war between the house of york, whose emblem was a white rose, and the house of lancaster, whose emblem was a red rose, brought about the line of kings
- mystery play
- plays about the lives of the saints
- Magna Carta
- an agreement that a group of angry barons forced king john to sign. also called great charter. limited the kings taxing powers
- battle of hastings
- (1066) in this battle, Harold, the King of England was defeated by William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy
- what were the results of the combinations of English and Norman people?
- England became the most powerful force in Europe
- describe the norman people
- superb soldiers, excellent administrators and lawyers, great borrowers and adapters, but lacking inventors, and original ideas.
- romance
- story with an added love interest and all sorts of wonders and marvels. also most favored form of literature
- ballad
- songs not written down but recited and sung in innumerable alehouses and at thousands of fire sides
- king arthur and the knights of the round table
- most famous tale of chivalry and romance
- apprentice
- young person who lived with a tradesman in order to learn a trade
- hundred years war
- war between france and england where england lost most of its holdings in france
- miricle play
- rouch dramatizations of Biblical stories performed on large wagons or platforms
- chivalry
- code of true knightly behaviors
- primogeniture
- gave the firstborn son exclussive rights to inherit his father's titles, lands, and estates
- William the Conqueror
- Duke of Normandy who invaded England to support his claim that he had been promised the succession to the English Throne
- Domesday Book
- the book of judgements, it listed all the landowners and showed the extent of their claims
- guild
- societies to regulate prices and standards
- everyman
- the most famous of the morality plays and one still often performed in many countries
- give the results of William the Conqueror's invasion of England.
- inventory and seizure of property, martial law was put into effect, a strong central government was set up with lines of authority clearly defined
- what was most effective in ending the middle ages?
- achived an elaborately organized way of life completely contained within a common religion. king henry the 7th becoming king and the use of long bows.
- serfs
- pessants who served an over lord
- give the effects of the church on the medieval society.
- people of western europe belonged to one homogeneous society with a common culture and common set of beliefs. institution crossed physical boundaries and differences in language. latin became the language of all educated persons
- geoffrey chaucer
- the first truely great figure in english literature
- what is the significance of the cathedral in literature?
- where the first english dramas were performed
- ordeals
- unfair systems of deciding guilty of innocent by setting them tasks
- journeyman
- men who passed their apprenticeship and were in training to be masters themselves
- morality plays
- elaborate and sophisticated dramatic allegories in which characters representing various virtues andvices confronted one another
- habeus corpus
- the right to not be illegally detained
- what were the crusades? what did they accomplish?
- crusades in high hope, in a geunine desire to rescue jerusalem from the turks. they encouraged the ideal of knightly behavios known as chivalry
- Angle Saxon Chronicle
- a history written by monks hostile to William
- common law
- refers to law that is common to the whole country and all its people