GERMAN EPIC Flashcards
(26 cards)
With the fall of Rome, _ slipped backward almost into savagery
Europe
Dark Ages gave way to the
MIDDLE AGES
When the darkness lifted, the ___ began to reassert itself
GRECO-ROMAN CIVILIZATION
It survived in the _
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Gradual pursuits and activities took place in _
MONASTERIES
Gradual pursuits and activities took place in _
MONASTERIES
Progress in _ was educational
MIDDLE AGES
Was the first university
UNIVERSITY OF SALERMO
UNIVERSITIES:
UNIVERSITIES OF BOLOGNA, PARIS, OXFORD, CAMBRIDGE, SALAMANCA, HEIDELBERG
Learning and aesthetic sensibility that still survived were preserved in _
MONASTERIES
Major literary type, earliest literary form
EPIC
Basis in prehistory
EARLY EPIC
Contains magnitude of theme, story line, heroic characters
EPIC
“A narrative in verse full of warlike adventures”
EPIC
Adventures of Aeneas, destiny of imperial Rome
AENEID
Pride and obstinacy of Roland, Christianity against Islam
Song of Roland
Age of epics
MIDDLE AGES
Oldest European epics is the English epic, _
BEOWULF A.D 520
Only _ stand out as major epics
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EPICS FROM GERMANY
The Nibelungenlied
EPICS FFOM FRANCE:
The Song of Roland
EPICS FROM SPAIN:
El Cid
EPICS FROM ITALY
The Divine Comedy
Drama which the characters sing, rather than speak
OPERA
