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5V Middle English

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

Outline
Recap Battle of Hastings
Feudal system
Domesday Book
Middle English language: Anglo-Norman
Middle English literature: courtly love, romance literature
Great vowel shift
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales


Slide 2 - Tekstslide

Battle of Hasting
14 October 1066
King Harold Godwinson is killed
 William, duke of Normandy → William the Conqueror
King William I
 (crowned on Christmas Day 1066).


Slide 3 - Tekstslide

What happened to Anglo-saxon language after the Norman conquest?

Slide 4 - Open vraag

Feudal system

Slide 5 - Tekstslide

Slide 6 - Video

Explain the feudal system

Slide 7 - Open vraag

Who in the Anglo-Norman society spoke French?

Slide 8 - Open vraag

Who in the Anglo-Norman society spoke Latin?

Slide 9 - Open vraag

Who in the Anglo-Norman society spoke English?

Slide 10 - Open vraag

Courtly love & romance literature
Code of honour
Examples: Sir Lancelot & Lady Guinevere
King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table

Slide 11 - Tekstslide

Slide 12 - Video

What does "courtly love" mean? Include chivalry, honour, and arranged marriages in your answer

Slide 13 - Open vraag

Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
Main characters: Sir Gawain, Green Knight
Plot: King Arthur's court, queeste
Important: chivalry
Magic: Green Knight, green girdle

Slide 14 - Tekstslide

Explain why Sir Gawain and the Green Knight can be viewed as "romance literature"

Slide 15 - Open vraag

Slide 16 - Video

Give a short summary of Gawain and the Green Knight

Slide 17 - Open vraag

Great Vowel shift
The Middle English language evolved into Modern English in a process called the Great Vowel Shift (abt. 1450-1550). In this process, the pronunciation of most long vowels changed.

Slide 18 - Tekstslide

Great Vowel Shift
Examples:
date in Middle English [a:] (similar to modern dart);
feet was [e:](similar to modern fate);
wipe was [i:] (similar to modern weep);
boot was [o:] (similar to modern boat);
house was [u:] (similar to modern whose).

Slide 19 - Tekstslide

Slide 20 - Video

What happened with the long vowels during the Great Vowel Shift?

Slide 21 - Open vraag

Geoffrey Chaucer
Chaucer filled an important position at the court of Richard II and travelled to the Low Countries and Italy.

Here he became acquainted with the works of the writer Boccaccio.
Chaucer is partly responsible for the London Middle English dialect becoming the source of Modern English.


Slide 22 - Tekstslide

Geoffrey Chaucer
Most important work:

The Canterbury Tales (1387 – 1400):
frame story (“raamvertelling”) after the Italian Decamerone: a number of stories linked by a framework (“raamwerk”).
Framework: pilgrimage from London to the grave of St. Thomas à Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. Thomas was murdered in front of the altar in 1170.


Slide 23 - Tekstslide

Introduction: The Canterbury Tales
1) A number of stories linked by a framework (“raamwerk”).
2) Framework: pilgrimage from London to the grave of St. Thomas à Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. Thomas was murdered in front of the altar in 1170.

 

Slide 24 - Tekstslide

Introduction: The Canterbury Tales
Pilgrims come from all walks of life and present a cross-section of 14th century England: nobility, clergy, third estate (or “common people”)
They hold a competition telling stories to pass the time while travelling to Canterbury.
 


Slide 25 - Tekstslide

Introduction: The Canterbury Tales
There are two parts:

-General Prologue: introduction and description of all the pilgrims;
-The 22 Tales, which are all very different, each fitting with its narrator:
Examples:
The Knight’s Tale, The Miller’s Tale, The Wife of Bath’s Tale




Slide 26 - Tekstslide

Introduction: The Canterbury Tales
Focus on From the General Prologue: The Squire
                                                                               The Wife of Bath
                                                                                Miller's tale

Slide 27 - Tekstslide

Slide 28 - Video

What is the general prologue describing?

Slide 29 - Woordweb

General prologue
1)  Pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral > relics martyr of Thomas Beckett
2) 29 pilgrims (inc. Chaucer)
3) Host > Harry Bailey
4) Location Tabard Inn
5) Competition > 4 stories in total
     Prize > free meal upon their return
     Draw sticks > knight draws the shortest one, so he starts first
6) Description of spring (pagan)
7) Estate satire > satire on the different classes in society
     Prologue keeps everything together + provides an overview of pilgrims

Slide 30 - Tekstslide

In class
Go to classroom/take OE+ME reader
Read prologue on The Squire
Page 8

Slide 31 - Tekstslide

What did you notice after read the prologue on The Squire

Slide 32 - Woordweb

Give a brief description of the squire. Include nobility, clergy or peasantry in your answer

Slide 33 - Open vraag

General prologue: The Squire
  • Knight's son
  • focused on courtly love & romance
  • Medieval bachelor
  • Dress: rings, lavish clothing
  • Carefree
  • Personality: humble, polite, and helpful

Slide 34 - Tekstslide

In class
Go to classroom/take OE+ME reader
Read prologue on The Wife of Bath
Page 9 + 10

Slide 35 - Tekstslide

Slide 36 - Video

What is the social class of the Wife of Bath?

Slide 37 - Open vraag

Describe the personality traits of the Wife of Bath

Slide 38 - Open vraag

General prologue: The Wife of Bath
  • Bath is an English town on the Avon River
  • Seamstress
  • Expert on marriage
  • Married 5 times
  • Loves marriage and being physical
  • Indirect characterization: Takes pleasure in rich attire, talking, and arguing
  • Deaf in one ear
  • Gap between her front teeth (This was considered attractive in Chaucer’s time)
  • She has traveled on pilgrimages to Jerusalem three times and elsewhere in Europe as well

Slide 39 - Tekstslide

Next time: The Canterbury tales
Plot/overview
General prologue: Squire
General prologue: The Wife of Bath
The Miller's Tale

Slide 40 - Tekstslide