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| 3362049698 | Exemplum | Story told to illustrate a moral message or sermon | 0 | |
| 3362049699 | Framework story | A story within a story | 1 | |
| 3362049700 | Feudalism | Social hierarchy system of the middles ages A ruler or lord offers a mounted fighters a fief, a unit of land to control in exchange for military service | 2 | |
| 3362049701 | Guilds | Important in the development of the middle class. Similar to a labor union. They set wages and prices, guaranteed products, and regulate the terms of apprenticeship | 3 | |
| 3362049702 | Thomas a becket | Close friend of Henry II. Was murdered by one of King Henry's Knights. Martyr by the Catholic Church. Had a conflict between king of England. Canonized by pope Alexander III | 4 | |
| 3362049703 | Great chain of being | Based on the idea that people of middles ages didn't believe full equality was possible among men on earth. They thought mortal life, each person had a slot and that is where they would remain because it was God's plan. Example. If they were born as a servant, they would remain as a servant | 5 | |
| 3362049704 | Divine order of things | Hierarchy, gives King and pope the right to rule over command | 6 | |
| 3362049705 | Chaucers retraction | Where Chaucer apologizes for any sinful or negative thing he has written. He asks for forgiveness from God and others | 7 | |
| 3362049706 | Naive narrator | A narrator who doesn't know the whole story, shows irony. Reveals faults and flows around him from his inexperience example- first saying how bad the pardoner was then stating he was a well preacher | 8 | |
| 3362049707 | Chivalry code | A code all Knights must obey. It involves being loyal to God, King/leader, protecting the victimized, and protecting the women. | 9 | |
| 3362049708 | Concept of courtly love | Popular concept in literature in Middle Ages. Knights serves his courtly lady with obedience and loyalty. It's not between a husband and wife. | 10 |
