Final Study Guide
1337-1453
1348
1362
1381
Babylonian Captivity
Philosophical Realism
Nominalism
Affective Piety (Incarnational Theology)
Mysticicsm
Via Negativa, Via Positiva, Via Activa
Fabliaux
Medieval Estates (for men and women)
Estates Satire
Saint’s Life
Feast of Corpus Christ
Easter Troper
Corpus Christi Play (Cycle)
Mystery Play
Morality Play
Semi-liturgical and Liturgical drama
St. Francis
Dream Vision
Three stages of Romance and Dream Vision
Romance
Stages of Mystical Journey
Prologue, General Prologue
Gothic vs. Romanesque Art
Star of Solomon
Allegory of the Three Temptations
Pageant Wagon
Bob and Wheel
St. Scholastica
Margery’s Husband’s Problem
Margery’s public sign of her blessing
Ancrene Wisse
Pearl Poet
Alliterative Revival
Harrowing of Hell in Piers
Allegory of field full of folk
Belling the Cat
Allegorical implications of the General Prologue
Dramatic Principle and its three levels
Questions
to consider
What is meant by the inner and outer plots (and corresponding themes) of SGGK?
Compare and contrast the styles of Miller versus Franklin?
Discuss the political differences between the Pearl Poet and Chaucer.
What are the positive and negative implications of “courtly love” in Troilus Book III and in the tale of Pyramus and Thibe.
Discuss the range of portraits in the General Prologue. How do they seem to be grouped and what is mean by idealized and satirized characters?Are the portraits in any sense allegorical?
The opening few lines of the General Prologue set up the Venus to Virgin (sin to salvation) theme we discussed in class. What does that mean?
What is meant by High Gothic style and what text or texts represent that style well?
Discuss the use of allegory in Piers Plowman?
Discuss the dialogue in Hell about Christ’s redepmtion.
What is the meant by the mystical journey?
Medieval drama evolves from church ceremony, we have said. How would you describe it?
In what ways might the farce of the Second Shepherds’ Play be considered moral?
What is the basic structure of Everyman?What is the
connection to the Brethren of Deventer?How is spirit echoed in Chaucer’s Parson?
Discuss the woman and writer and the woman as written in the literature we have read since the mid-term.
What is the effect of late medieval sensibility toward the body (affective piety and incarnational theology) and idealization (Nominalism and its rejection of idealizing the abstractions of Philosophical Realism) in late medieval literature (Chaucer and the mystery plays primarily)?
In what ways does Chaucer fit and not fit amongst the other literature that we have read?
Compare and contrast SGGK and Troilus as medieval romances.
Using Piers Plowman and SGGK compare the structure and function of dream vision and romance.
Cockayne, Rhymer
Troilus, Book III
Women’s Lit
Piers Plowman
Piramus and Tisbe
General Prologue
Franklin, Miller, Wife of Bath Prologues and Tales
Second Shepherds’ Play
Everyman