Ages, era, period

A. the Normans
B. the Geats
C. the Anglo-Saxons
D. the Danes

A. the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.
B. the Peasant Uprising of 1381.
C. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
D. the wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476.

A. Henry II
B. Henry V
C. Louis XIV
D. Edward III

A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Marie de France
C. Chr´tien de Troyes
D. b and c only

A. the reign of King Arthur
B. the coronation of Henry II
C. King John’s seal of the Magna Carta
D. the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine

A. They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers.
B. Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French.
C. Their readers’ primary language was English.
D. a and c only

A. Beowulf
B. Arthur
C. Augustine of Canterbury
D. Alfred

A. Sir Thomas Malory
B. Margery Kempe
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. William Langland

A. parchment made of animal skin
B. the service owed to a lord by his peasants (\villeins\)
C. unrhymed iambic pentameter
D. a prized ink used in the illumination of prestigious manuscripts

A. the Battle of Agincourt
B. the Battle of Hastings
C. the Norman Conquest
D. the War of the Roses