All of the tales in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales are meant to reflect the personality and lifestyle of the pilgrim telling the tale. In medieval times, a franklin was a landowner who sometimes had to to travel away from home for business....
Feudalism is a system of society in which the nobility and clergy rule over the peasants. The elite and clergy are governed by the monarch, who has absolute power. The feudal system was not just a political system but also an economic system. It was based on land ownership and agricultural...
00:35③By the 15th century the Robin Hood legend took on its first trappings of rebellion against the ruling class. 00:44④In the 16th century Robin Hood became fashionable among the royalty and even associated with nobility. 00:55⑤In the Elizabethan era Robin Hood became a popular prese...
Alfred Leslie Rowse (4 December 1903 – 3 October 1997) was a British historian and author, best known for his work on Elizabethan England. Born in Cornwall and raised in humble circumstances, he was encouraged to study for Oxford by fellow-Cornishman Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. He was elected...
Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest nondramatic poet of the Elizabethan Age. His fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece ___ . a. Cymbeline b. Love's Labour's Lost c. The Winter's Tale d. The Fairy Queen 12. Claudius, Ophelia and Laertes are characters in ___ . a. Kin...
9、rmans_ headed by william duke of normandy, defeated the anglo-saxons. 2. the literature with normans brought to england is remarkable for its bright, _romantic_ tales of _love_ and adventures, in marked contrast with the _strength_ and _somberness_ of anglo-saxon poetry. 3. english ...
Born on July 1, 1961, in Sandringham, England, Diana Frances Spencer was the youngest daughter of Edward John Spencer, Viscount Althorp, and Frances Ruth Burke Roche, Viscountess Althorp. She grew up among British nobility and had royal ancestry. Her marriage to Prince Charles not only made...
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