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How does literature shape or reflect society?

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How do writers change what they have inherited?

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Bequest from the past and Changing in the Telling

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The "Sea-Road"

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Beowulf

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How did Chaucer reflect social trends without?

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showing not preaching, political turbulence, rising middle class, the wirter and society, the port and his world

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Who wrote A history of English church and people?

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Bede-who was a monk

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How did literature make a nation of an island?

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A place of shared stories and a nation created by imagination

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What story represents a woman as a guild?

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Chaucer's Wife of Bath --daughter was a weaver--this created a new middle class of woman

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What is the relationship of the writer and tradition?

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Tradition doesn't refer from what a writer receives in the past.....it refers to what the writer does with the inhertiance

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How did Chaucer respond to and create literary traditions?

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using the old, making it new, inventing the rhythm of English Poetry, and traditions stretching Backward and Forward

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What was England's greatest medieval poem?

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"Canterbury Tales"

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What created Middle English?

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The invasion of the Normans....French words then emerged a tongue called Middle English

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What were guilds?

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Artisans in one occupation--basket weavers, bakers --- took many years to become one and could work in any trade

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Angles, Saxons, and jutes

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Invaded Britannia....brought Germanic tongue which in the new setting it became Anglo Saxon or old English

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