Romance Written in the Fourteenth Century

During the second half of the fourteenth century the functions of the vernacular changed and English began to be used as the language of government and administration, and for literary purposes. ... The emergence of a written standard language was focused on the London dialect during the fourteenth century (Thrupp, 16). ... The first identified by Samuels, known as Type II, is found in a group of manuscripts copied in London in the mid fourteenth century. The next London variety, termed Type III, is the language of London in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, recorded i...

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The first mention of his victory in battle was written down around 600 AD, in a set of church annals called the Annales Cambriae. ... The Great Hall at Winchester castle actually contains a round table, this one constructed around the fourteenth century, and thought to have been built for Arthurian tournaments held by King Edward III. ... He is first found as the central hero in the French Vulgate Cycle, written between 1215 and 1230. ... From here also comes the romance of Lancelot and Elaine of Corbin, daughter of King Pelles, which resulted in the birth of the ...

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The story is considered to be verse romance. ... The story was composed in the second half of the fourteenth century. It is likely that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was written around 1375. ... The poem did not receive much attention at all until the beginning of the twentieth century. ... Unfortunately, even then the poem was read incorrectly as a straight-forward and very prototypical medieval romance. ...

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There is evidence that, in the eleventh century, after a knights forty days of unpaid service ran out, the knights might have received pay for continual services. ... By the end of the twelfth century the knight's fee had developed into an essential element of military service. By the end of the fourteenth century the obligations placed on knight service were outdated. ... In medieval Arthurian romance literature the giving of love for a service was quite common. ... In a report called A Code of Chivalry written by Brian Price, he describes these characteristics of the chivalric code...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. ... Before 1914, English literature and ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918, Modern begins to define the twentieth century. ... Modernism is one of the key words of the first part of the century. ... His novels, written between 1870 and 1895, made him the explorer of the transition of lives and minds from the age of traditional values and religious certainties to the age of godlessness and modern tragedy, a transition sometimes described as 'the clash of the modern...

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Formal evaluation occurs at the end of each unit when a written examination along with a performed skills test occurs. ... Written Examination At the end of each unit the students write an exam prepared by the teacher which tests their knowledge based on the material covered in class and on handout material. ... DEMONSTRATION AND WRITTEN EXAM 5. ... DEMONSTRATION AND WRITTEN EXAM 5. ...

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• Grade Level: High School