A. the Battle of Hastings
B. Saint Patrick’s mission
C. the Fourth Lateran Council
D. his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine
2- The Medieval Period (455-1485)
- The Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period (428-1066)
- The Middle English (Anglo-Norman) Period ( 1066 -1450)
- Late Or “High” Medieval Period ( 1200-1485 )
A. Dante’s Divine Comedy
B. Boccaccio’s Decameron
C. The Dream of the Rood
D. Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women
A. the Normans
B. the Geats
C. the Anglo-Saxons
D. the Danes
A. She sought unsuccessfully to restore classical paganism.
B. She was a virgin martyr.
C. She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular.
D. She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago.
A. Henry II
B. Henry V
C. Louis XIV
D. Edward III
A. the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.
B. the Peasant Uprising of 1381.
C. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
D. the wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476.
A. Geoffrey of Monmouth
B. the Gawain poet
C. the Beowulf poet
D. Chr´tien de Troyes
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Marie de France
C. Chr´tien de Troyes
D. b and c only
A. a work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire
B. a story about love and adventure
C. a Roman official
D. a work was written in the French vernacular