1. The Middle English Era (1066-1550)
Anglo-Norman Period ( )
The Age Of Chaucer ( )

2. Anglo-Norman Period (1066-1350)
Normans
Roman-Gallics
Union of French & Norse

3. Lively Celtic Disposition
Progressive Latin civilization

4. Romance Language
Domesday Book

5. The Conquest
William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy and Master of England
Battle of Hastings defeated the Saxon king Harold--end of the tribalism

6. King Harold killed
William Conqueror, crowned Christmas Day, 1066

7. Last Time that England was invaded
Began Feudal Tradition and a merger between French and English cultures

8. Replaced, brought back Roman Culture
National Ideal
Holy Crusades--11th to 13th Century

11. Age of Chaucer
Feudalism
Ballad
Metrical Romance

12. Feudalism— German vieh, or “cow”

13. Contractual System—King lets out land return for service
Lord judged, taxed, commanded those below

14. Homage—servant “homme” or man of the other
Fealty--faithful

15. Metrical Romance
Derived from the French
Hero usually a knight;
Fair ladies in distress, warriors in armor, giants, dragons, enchanters, and enemies of the state

16. Evil Enemy
Quest
Test(s) of the Hero
Supernatural Elements

17. Good vs. evil
Female Figures (maidens in need of rescue, mothers, crones, or temptresses)
Chivalry (Code of Honor)

18. Chivalry: A code of honor
Adherence to one’s oath of loyalty to an overlord
observing certain rules of warfare
adoring a particular lady

19. Supernatural or fairy event or character
Love as a prominent theme (faithful rather than courtly love)

20. Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales: Late 14th Century
Holy Crusades
Thomas a Beckett: Archbishop of Canterbury ( ) Henry II

21. 1163 a canon accused of murder acquitte by church court
Brought before King, Beckett pleaded for his acquittal
King Henry then extends king’s court over church
Beckett exiled in France for 6 years

22. Knights stab him to death
Altar sight of miracles

23. Tales--(Prologue or Frame Story/Tale)

24. Irony:a contrast or discrepancy between expectations and reality
verbal
situational
dramatic

25. Satire: a kind of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about social reform

26. Allegory:a story in which the characters, setting, and events stand for abstract or moral concepts.

27. Fabliau is a brief comic tale in verse, usually scurrilous and often scatological or obscene. The style is simple, vigorous, and straightforward; the time is the present, and the settings real familiar places; the plots are realistically motivated tricks and ruses.

28. Breton Lay: A short romance derived from the French

29. Marie de France
Short romance of between 100 and 1000 lines