The Middle English Period

What is the clerical theory?

In what way does the line “today will be your hangman” in “Robin Hood and the widows three sons.”?

When was the diversion of the house of commons from the Montfort’s assembly of the lords, gentlemen, and burgesses?

In “the wife of usher’s well” how do you know the brothers are ghosts?

Nun’s moral values?

What qualities of chivalry does Gareth exhibit?

What are the Squire’s characteristics?

What folk ballad was the commonly accepted theory?

What was the importance of the partner’s tail?

How does the difference of opinions help support the stories theme concerning the true nature of nobility?

What where the social and economic conditions

Who is the intended audience for the Canterbury tales and how was this different?

What type of injustice was “ the wife of usher’s well”?

What is the nun’s priest’s Tale?

What type of injustice is “get some get up and bar the door”

Nun’s spiritual values?

“the Twa Corbies”: How does the use of contrast add to the poems impact?

How does the speaker in “the Twa Corbies” develop the tone of indentation and pity?

What is the color symbolism with black and white

When were the crusades?

In “the wife of usher’s well” is their mother aware of the situation?

What was popular in literature at the time?

Parson’s Moral values?

What character in the story shares Sir Kay’s opinion of Beaumains & what characters disagree with this negative opinion?

What was the common language?

What were the Knight’s characteristics?

When was the revival of the Greek studies?

Who wrote the Canterbury tales?

What action indicates the wife’s feelings regarding the outcome?

What type of injustice was “Robin Hood and the widows three sons.”?

What were the nuns characteristics?

At what point does the fox seize Chanticleer? How does this feature of the tale parallel Satan’s “seizing” of Adem?

When was the introduction of Scholasticism?

What terms does Wickliffe use to describe the priest who meet his requirements?

What is the minstrual theory?

When was the Magna Carta signed and who was forced to sign it?

Chanticleer complained to Partlet “our perch is made so narrow.” How does this line parallel the Genesis account?

What is communal theory?

What purpose did he achieve by making his first request?

The subject matter of the folk ballad

Parson’s characteristics?

When was the great scheme between rival Popes?

Pardoner’s spiritual values?

What is the central symbol of the Canterbury tales?

What are the husbands and wives reason for their refusal?

What type of injustice is “The Twa Corbies”

Pardoner’s characteristics?

What purposes were served by Gareth’s joust with Sir Kay?

What are Characteristics of the folk ballad?

What elements contribute to the humor in “get some get up and bar the door”?

Is the final outcome of the tail a sad or happy one? Why?

What are the origins of the folk ballad?

What are the Knights spiritual Values?

When was the peasants revolt?

How would you characterize Bains behavior as a kitchen knave?

What is Physiognomy?

Who wrote “For the Order of the Priesthood”?

What are the Yeoman’s characteristics?

How does Beaumains prove his worthiness to Sir Lancelot, and what is Lancelot’s reaction to gareth’s true Identity.

Who exhibits more nobility, Beumains or Sir Kay?

Who wrote the Nun’s priest’s Tale?

What were the Innovations during the Middle English periods?

When was the invention of printing?

What examples of irony do you find from some of the ballads?

What is the journalistic theory?

What characteristics are desirable for priests?

What does the order in which Wickcliffe list these traits indicate about the relative importance he places on them?

Who were the pilgrims in Canterbury tales?

Why are these qualifications so important to Wickcliffe?

Pardoner’s moral values?

When was the Black Death and what was it also called?

Who wrote Morte d’Arthur?

For what purpose does Romain make his last two requests?

The fox shares Chanticleers colors what doesn’t he have?

What was introduced with the government in the English government?

Parson’s spiritual values?

Who lies in wait for the rooster in the barnyard?

What was the purpose of writing the Canterbury tales at first?

What is the Knight’s Moral Values?

Scholar’s characteristics?

When was the founding of the universities?

What where the 3 permit principals?

What wars and battles went on during the Middle Ages?

What is the gifted folk poet?

How does the passage with Chanticleer and Partlet parallel the Genesis account of man be for the fall?