History 1100-honors

Question Set C

Lancelot

1. What does the cart symbolize in the story?

2. What does the sword bridge symbolize?

*3. Why does Guinevere refuse to go home with Lancelot after he has rescued her?  

4. How does Lancelot respond to her rejection?

Medieval Ideas

5. Why is it appropriate to speak of a 12th-century renaissance?

6. What did medieval scholasticism hope to achieve?

7. What were the major fields of learning in medieval universities?

Experience of the Plague

*30. What really baffles Petrarch about the Black Death? What is his state of mind after losing so many friends?

31. [Boccaccio] Which method of surviving the plague worked best?

32. Besides death itself, what does Agnolo di Tura find horrifying about the plague? Compare this description to Boccoccio

Hundred Years' War

36. How could English king Edward III claim to be the true king of France?

37. What were two especially bad aspects of the Hundred Years' War?

*38. [linked reading] In Shakespeare's account of King Henry's speech to his