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Boast (as in Beowulf) Boast about what they would do in battle - that psyched him up for the contest and guaranteed that he would not lose is nerve. Bubonic Plague ... Comedies, tragedies, and histories (types of plays written by Shakespeare) ... Comedy (Medieval definition) ... Decameron literary work by Boccaccio which was composed of 100 vulgar tales told by three men and seven women in a country retreat from the plague that ravaged Florence in 1348; both a stringing social commentary (sexual/economic misconduct) and a sympathetic look at human behavior Divine Justice ... Essay ... Fabliau a story telling comic incidents of ordinary life usually with blunt realism and earthy humor Feudalism political system based on bonds of loyalty between lords and vassals Folk epic about an ethnic hero. lacks organization its plot is eposodic and undefined. Guelphs and Ghibilines (Dante) ... Harrowing of hell (Dante) ... Heroic Age In the early Middle Ages, non-church literature tended to be about figures such as Beowulf, Siegfried, and Roland. 476-1300 AD after the fall of the Roman Empire High Middle Ages the period from 1000 to 1300 in which the church had a key role shaping the new world Humanism a philosophy in which interests and values of human beings are of primary importance Johannes Gutenberg (movable type) Invented the printing press Limbo ... Liturgical drama or Trope (type of play) ... Mead ... Mechanicals ... Medieval romances ... Medieval sermon ... Morality Play a type of allegorical drama (fifteenth century) making a moral or religious point. Mystery Play a type of religious drama in the MIddle Ages based on stories from the Bible Novel a long work of fiction Numerology ... Paganism ... Pilgrimage ... Protestant Reformation ... Protestantism ... Renaissance ... Roman Catholicism ... Sonnet a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme The Globe Theater that William Shakespeare owned and wrote plays for. The Theatre Built by Shakespeare and investors. Could hold several thousand people. Poor stood on ground (1 penny) and wealthy sat in balconies- as much as 3 pennies, or on the stage. Theater- open air, no lighting, trapdoors/rigging. Only male actors. The theater closed at specific intervals due to plague and actually burned and was rebuilt but the Puritans closed it down later. The New Globe is very similar to original. Wyrd Anglo-Saxon word for fate The idea that everyone has an appointed time and place to die. This is why they would go into battle with no regard to protecting themselves.