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! ! ! Medieval— Anything that was a product of the middle ages !

Middle Ages— Art literature, and science flourished during this time, rooted in christen culture that preserved, transmitted and transformed classical tradition.

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Alnglo Saxon— A group of people who inhabited GB from 5th C, included people from Germanic Tribes, it included the creation of an English nation. The re-establishment of Chritianity. Were apart of DREAM OF THE ROOD and BEOWULF

! Paganism— Non christian/ pre christian. ! Old English— The Anglo Saxon invaders spoke this early form of language. ! Personification— Giving human qualities to non living things ! Syncretism— The merging of different religions !

Alliterative Verse— Lines connected by allertation (sound pattern of a constance sound) not by rhyme

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Heroic Code— BEOWULF, A wsrrior class that was ruled by a tribal chieftain body or personal retainers of warriors bound to the chieftain by kingship. Vengeance warrior, must kill a person who injured there warrior. Weregild

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Affective Piety— experience of god through the senses of imagination (imagine what it would feel like to be crucified) Part of spiritual practice.

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Anchorite/Anchoress— A religious recluse confined to an enclosure, which he or she vowed to never leave. 1 room house attached to the side of a church.commit entire life to focusing only on spiritual matters.

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Protestant Reformation— A movement against what Protestants considered to be error of the Catholic Church.

! Indulgences— The action or fact of indulging. ! !

Elizabeth I— Ruled 1558-1603. Protestant. Mary Queen of Scots— At one time, she claimed the crowns of four nations – Scotland, France, England and Ireland.

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Spanish Armada— Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed in August 1588, with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England.

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Spenserian Stanza— is a fixed verse form invented by Edmund Spenser for his epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–96). Each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter.

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Allegory— a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

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Errour— The Faerie Queene is Redcross’ fight with the Errour. this is Errours den “A monster vile, whom God and mad does hate/therefore I read beware. The Holy knight discovers Errour in this den. She is half woman, half serpent and “full of vile disdaine” Errour as half woman and half serpent appears to be a biblical reference back to the story of Adam and Eve

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Archimago— is a sorcerer in The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser Duesssa— Her skills of disguise are obviously quite impressive since she can pretend to be Fidessa,

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Soliloquy— a monolouge when a character is alone on stage thinking out loud (to be or not to be)

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Blank Verse— is a poem with no rhyme but does have iambic pentameter. This means it consists of lines of five feet, each foot being iambic, meaning two syllables long, one unstressed followed by a stressed syllable.

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Tragedy—- an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe.

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Humanism— an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.

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Middle Ages Anglo-Saxon Unknown, “The Dream of the Rood” Unknown, “Beowulf”

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Middle English Julian of Norwich, “A Book of Showings” Margery Kempe, “The Book of Margery Kempe”

Sixteenth Century Elizabeth I, “The doubt of future foes” Edmund Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene”

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Seventeenth Century William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”...