MIDDLE AGES

Which is the oldest period in the history of English literature?

The Year of Norman Conquest?

Which people began their invasion and conquest of south­western Britain around 450?

Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066?

Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures?

Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law?

Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336?

Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?

What was vellum?

Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in:

What is the first extended written specimen of Old English?

Who was the first English Christian king?

In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance?

Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with:

The use of “whale-road” for sea and “life-house” for body are
examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English Poetry?

Which of the following best describes litotes, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry?

How did Henry II, the first of England’s Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France?

Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?

Which Twelfth century poet or poets were indebted to  Breton?

StoryTeller of their narrative?

To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of  “Romance” emerged, initially apply?