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Medieval literature

AP Euro Renaissance

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Bibliophiles
Petrarch
Rhetoricians
Nobility
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Medieval literature
Social inequality

Chapter 9 - late middle ages ? 1300s - early 1400s ? Kings vs ?Church and nobility? ? two great containers of monarchical power ? Church - powerful, most important ? Nobles - had a lot of land and more powerful ? Kings- just caretakers ? Kings ? 100 years war ? 1337-1453 ? France vs. Britain ? enemies ? Britain was winning but France pulled through (Joan of Arc) ? Result - France becomes a ?centralized ?power ? Black Plague - 1348 ? ? Spread from rats on ships from Asia to Europe ? Had no science so they turned to ?religion ? Flagellants ? punishing themselves to prove themselves to God ? Destroyed ? of population ? living in fear/ wild ways ? Result - nobility was weakened ? 1) economically - less labor - less demand for food

AP Lit Final

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Cotton Library
British poetry
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Knights of the Round Table
Middle English literature
Medieval literature
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Gawain
Pearl
Green Knight
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Beowulf
misanthrope
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Key Facts full title?????Sir Gawain and the Green Knight author????Anonymous; referred to as the Gawain-poet or the Pearl-poet type of work????Alliterative poem genre????Romance, Arthurian legend language????Middle English (translated into modern English) time and place written????Ca.?1340?1400, West Midlands, England publisher????The original work circulated for an unknown length of time in manuscript format. It now exists as MS Cotton Nero A.x, fols.?91r?124v, held at the British Library. Many different modern English and original-language editions exist. narrator????Third person omniscient

Dante's Inferno

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Inferno
Guido I da Montefeltro
Hell
Guido
Montefeltro

which sinners can be found here and why? how is the punishment symbolic of the sin? what does dante see? who does dante speak with? how do virgil and dante respond to the sinners and punishments? who is the gaurd or guardian like figure and wha is his specific job? how does the guard respond to traveleres how do dante and virgil respond to the gaurd what does dante gain.lose in terms of his sprituality? does virgil provide insight as to waht dante can expect to face within the coming circles?
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