A. Romance

B. Lai

D. Dream poetry

A. a woman who rejects the support of the community because she feels it is sexist

B. a religious teacher in the medieval era

C. a male anchorite

B. it is a union between anchorites

C. it is a union supported by the Church

D. it is a mystical union between two people

A. spells

B. enchantment

D. fairy trickery

A. Non of these

C. it describes a form of worship based on praying to devotional art

D. it describes a way of life that became popular after the Middle Ages

A. she wanted to make a political statement against the Church

B. she was concerned about loss of property

D. she said that the institution was too flawed

A. men are represented as immoral while women are always presented as chaste

C. women are always villains, while men are always heroes

D. women are always involved in supernatural plots while mens storylines tend to be more realistic

B. it includes issues that pertain to the heart

C. it is part of the anchoress inner self

D. it is the most important part of Ancrene Wisse

A. people stopped reading the Bible

B. interest in the Church history declined rapidly

D. people increasingly turned to visual art in order to learn about religion

A. Both use the comitatus ethic to explain their heros motivations.

B. Both include references toWilliam the Conqueror.

D. Both feature mentions of the conversion from paganism.

A. the issue of whether there is a female voice in the letters

B. the idea that Abelard wrote all of the letters

D. the critical debate about the verification of events in the letters

B. prostitution was considered problematic but legal

C. prostitution was considered a solution to epidemics of rape

D. the Church opposed prostitution on moral grounds

B. falling birth rates

C. financial deficits from increased military expenditures

D. invasions from barbarian tribes

A. it is part of the anchoress inner self

C. it is the most important part of Ancrene Wisse

D. it includes issues that pertain to the heart

B. Romanticism and the Enlightenment

C. English Reformation and Elizabethan Age

D. Civil war and the Restoration

A. Julian of Norwich

B. Margery Kempe

D. Christine de Pizan

A. King Alfred

B. King Richard

C. King Arthur

A. secular political activity

B. piety

D. chastity

A. she was the only woman to work in the oral tradition

C. she was the first female mystic

D. she was the only woman to write medieval lays

B. a period of educational activity

C. a period in which philosophers attempted to reconcile philosophy with religion

D. a period associated with the Carolingian Renaissance

A. charitable donations

C. pilgrimages

D. prayers on the sinners behalf

B. recitations by poets

C. games

D. knightly tournaments

B. it led to the end of Roman forms of governing

C. it led to the rise of Germanic cultures

D. it created a conflict Christianity and paganism

A. they took on more important roles in the economy

C. they were able to acquire more political capital

D. they lost the ability to be anchoresses

A. spinners

C. retailers

D. domestic servants

A. 12th century

C. 9th century

D. 10th century

A. The Romance of the Rose

B. Book of Hours

C. The Canterbury Tales

A. female literacy

B. peasant life

D. courtly love

A. a literary device used in estates satire

B. a term associated with oral transmission

C. an important trait of the medieval lay

A. The conduct of wars and tournaments

C. The relationships between knights and ladies

D. The feudal system

A. Revelations of Divine Love

C. Orison to an Almighty God

D. The Wooing of Our Lord

A. she applauded its promotion of female education

B. she objected to the treatment of secularism as evil

C. she praised the objectification of women

A. Walter Hilton

B. Richard Rolle

D. Julian of Norwich

B. people who reject asceticism and contemplation

C. people who were formally tied to religious orders

D. people who attempt to found their own religious orders

A. men who wrote only in the mystical tradition

B. heretics persecuted by the Church

C. the authors of conduct books

B. geographical unity

C. octosyllabic couplets

D. episodic content

A. Sir Launfal

B. Chaucers The Wife of Bath

C. Chaucers Franklins Tale

A. Platonic Period

C. Age of Reason

D. Age of Enlightenment

B. nobility

C. chastity

D. adultery

A. Catherine de Pizan

B. Catherine of Siena

D. Julian of Norwich

B. a term associated with oral transmission

C. the literary form linked closely with courtly love

D. a method of creating a mystical union

A. books that conformed with strict standards of behavior

B. books that recounted historical events in the medieval era

D. books that were primarily intended to teach men how to treat their wives

A. a short lyrical poem

B. a type of book of hours

D. a devotional text used by anchoresses

A. The use of epithets with characters names

B. An episodic structure

C. The repetition of words

B. the lack of technology made it literally dark

C. the production of historical records increased

D. it was a period of surging Roman institutions

A. she helps the narrator see the merits of women

B. she offers real reasons as to why women are valuable to society

D. she literally helps build the city

A. they were examples of mystical unions

C. they always represented the evil side of love

D. they were never chaste or pious

A. Feudalism represents interesting family quarrels that make for good stories.

C. Feudalism represents the world ofscholars who studied the ancient texts of the past.

D. The feudal world is one of glamor and beauty.

A. superstition

B. jealous fathers

D. adultery

A. the merit of women

B. the value of practical virtues over traditional feminine virtues

C. the lack of truth in mens stereotypes about women