British Literature Midterm Review Flash Cards

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The ___________ time period is the earliest recorded time in British History.

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Anglo-Saxon

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The _________ time period was characterized by plague, religious battles, and an increase in power of the Catholic Church.

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Medieval

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Non-christian cultures were referred to as _________.

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pagans

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_________were singing poets who preserved ancestry and records of achievements for future generations orally through songs.

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Scops

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____________is a relationship between a woman of aristocracy and a faithful knight.

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Courtly Love

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The pseudoscience which entails correlating facial features/body structure to psychological/moral characteristics is known as

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Physiognomy

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A code of ethics known as ____________ developed, which included rules and expectations that the nobility would behave in a certain manner. It was also a religious, moral, and social code which helped distinguish the higher classes from those below them.

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chivalry

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______________is the system used in the 10th-13th centuries where a social hierarchy was established based on local administrative control and the distribution of land into units (fiefs). A landowner (lord) gave a fief, along with a promise of military and legal protection, in return for a payment of some kind from the person who received it.

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Feudalism

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The ___________ were a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims started primarily to secure control of holy sites considered sacred by both groups.

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Crusades

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The ____________is what marked the end of the Anglo-Saxon era and ushered in the Medieval period.

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Battle of Hastings