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Harald Hadrada
Scandanavian warlord defeated by Harold Godwineson
Hastings
Site of the Conqueror's greatest victory
Geoffrey Chaucer
His
Canterbury Tales
marks the birth of truly English Literature
Henry II
The father of the Common Law
Harold Godwineson
Lost England to the French at Hastings
William Caxton
The first English printer
John I
Forced by his barons to sign the
Magna Carta
Angevin Dynasty
Name given to the descendants of Geoffrey of Anjou
William The Bastard
Duke of Normandy whose invasion made English history
Richard I
aka
Coeur de Lion
Thomas Becket
There is no doubt this guy had brains -- it is just sad where they ended up
Edward the Confessor
Pious king whose death leads to the Norman invasion
Bosworth Field
Site of the climactive battle of the Wars of the Roses
Sir Thomas Malory
Authored
Le Morte d'Arthur
Henry VII
Founded the Tudor Dynasty, ushered in the English Renaissance
Oral Tradition
Refers to the memorized poems and stories of a culture
Domesday Book
William's famous census for taxation purposes
Richard III
Last king of the Angevin/Planagenet dynasty
Wars of the Roses
Jousting between the Yorks and the Lancasters
Edward Longshanks
Hammer of the Scots, but Expeller of the Jews
Scop
The name given to the storyteller/bard in Anglo-Saxon times
Caesura
A pause in the middle of a line of poetry
Nowell Codex
The oldest known copy of the
Beowulf
manuscript
Excalibur
The famous sword in the stone from the Lady of the Lake
Boccaccio
Italian writer whose
Decameron
inspired Chaucer
Alfred The Great
Saxon king who held off the expansion of the Vikings in the 9th C CE
Igraine
Arthur's mother
Gaels
Settled in present day Ireland
Jutes
The 3rd of the Germanic tribes that invaded England after the Romans left in the 5th C CE
Danelaw
The part of England dominated by the Vikings at the time of Alfred
Guinevere
Arthur's adulterous queen
Mordred
Arthur's illegitimate son and mortal enemy
Merlin
Magician who aids Uther and Arthur
Picts
Settled in present day Scotland
Duke of Cornwall
Uther Pendragon's great rival
Chretien de Troyes
French Romance writer who popularized the Arthurian legends
Cymry
Settled in present day Wales
Wessex
West Saxons
Romance
Tales of knights and ladies
Morgan le Fay
Arthur's half sister
Geoffrey of Monmouth
English quasi-historian who wrote
Historia Regum Britanniae
Sussex
South Saxons
Venerable Bede
Wrote
An Ecclestastical History of the English People
Lancelot
The most skilled of the Knights of the Round Table, the lover of Guinevere
Britons
Settled in present day southern England
Uther Pendragon
The father of Arthur
Kenning
A name for a commonly used Anglo-Saxon metaphor
Hadrian
Built a wall
Claudius
The Roman Emporer who successfully invaded England in the 1st C CE
Julius Caesar
The Roman general who UNsuccessfully invaded Britannia c. 55 BCE
Author
KDavenport12
ID
60104
Card Set
AP English History Notecards
Description
AP English III History
Updated
2011-01-16T20:47:30Z
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