2022 Late Medieval SG

Alliterative Revival

________- (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) defining feature of the French model of poetry, emphasizes alliteration rather than rhyme.

Everyman

Very selfish and relies on lust and materials, He (Jesus) loses everything and everyone, and he realizes he can only rely on the father, he has become Christ-like.

Thomas Malory

________- the English writer who "gave definitive form in English to the legend of King Arthur "(wrote the book "Morte Darthur)

William Caxton

________- the printer of the Morte Darthur.

Good Deeds

Leads Everyman to Knowledge who takes him to Confession to be forgiven, so that this character could uplift Everyman in Heaven and be a spokesperson

Jesus

________ is the epitome of man.

3 Key Romance Cycles

Charlemagne (French), Trojan Wars (Roman), Arthurian Stories (British)

Viking

Pirate

Norman Conquest / Battle of Hastings / Edward, Harold, & William

Edward as king of England who died without an heir

Geoffrey of Monmouth

Writer of The History of the Kings of Britain

Dante

Writer of the Divine Comedy

Chaucer

Writer of the Canterbury Tales

Petrarch

Writer of the Poet Laureate

Alliterative Revival  

(Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) defining feature of the French model of poetry, emphasizes alliteration rather than rhyme

"Pearl Writer"

Writer of Gawain and the Green Knight

War of the Roses

Lancasters vs Yorks, leads to Tudor Dynasty when Henry VII (Lancaster) married Elizabeth of York

Mystery Plays

Plays that cities produced whose stories were based on biblical stories and were often a part of a cycle or sequence of tales

Morality Plays

Plays of original creation examining the interplay of personified virtues and vices fighting over a Christian's soul

Thomas Malory

The English writer who "gave definitive form in English to the legend of King Arthur" (wrote the book "Morte Darthur")

William Caxton

The printer of the Morte Darthur

Norman Conquest

The invasion and settlement of England by the Normans in 1066 following the Battle of Hastings, changed the English language to include aspects of French, Latin, and Celtic

Battle of Hastings

The battle that lead up to the Norman Conquest

Edward

The Confessor, King of England who died without an heir

Harold

The Duke, Fought against William for the throne in the Norman Conquest

William

The Bastard, Fought against Harold for the throne in the Norman Conquest

Memento Mori

Remember Death

The moral of Everyman

“All things faileth save God alone”

How God's justice is His mercy

God wants to save Everyman before his sin gets any worse

Bribery, More time, Returning, Bringing someone

The Four things Everyman tries get to out of death with

Hyperbole

Literary exaggeration

Goods

Material wealth

Earthly Matters

What Goods can help Everyman with

Death and Goods question to Everyman

"Is your life and possessions owned by you?"

The "Two loves"

God and His glory, material possessions

Everyman's Sins

Why Good Deeds is too weak at first

The irony of Strength's Judas Maccabeus argument

Judas Maccabeus had physical strength (and died), Everyman needs spiritual strength

Knowledge

Takes Everyman to Confession, last to leave him

Beauty then Strength then Discretion then the Five Wits

The order in which Everyman's friends leave him (like in real life)

Knowledge's Purpose

Very important, but not the deciding factor for heaven

God

The one who saves Everyman

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Written at the Monastery of Peterborough; witness to the changes taking place in the English language and see Norman rule from an English POV