Choose only one topic to research (don't forget to write your name), do the research on Internet and write 4-5 lines about it, add one or more pictures to make it nicer (write the link(s) and I will upload them for you)
the topics done (10 out of 18) are in red:
- 'Middle English' - 'The Hundred Years' War' - 'Black Death' - Dante Alighieri - Giovanni Boccaccio - Petrarch - Decameron -Westminster Abbey - Canterbury - Edward III - Richard II - Henry IV - What does a Parson do? - and a Summoner? - and a Pardoner? - pilgrimages
- Thomas Becket - the Middle Ages - the printing press - medieval medicine and astrology
Edward III
Was one of the most successful English monarchs of the Middle Ages. Restoring royal authority after the disastrous reign of his father, Edward II, he went on to transform the Kingdom of England into the most efficient military power in Europe.
Reign: 25 January 1327 – 21 June 1377 Cononation: 1 February 1327
Born: 13 November 1312 Died: 21 June 1377
ANTONIO'S OR LITO'S
Richard II, born in 1367, was the son of Edward, the Black Prince and Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent. Richard was but ten years old when he succeeded his grandfather, Edward III; England was ruled by a council under the leadership of John of Gaunt, and Richard was tutored by Sir Simon Burley. He married the much-beloved Anne of Bohemia in 1382, who died childless in 1394. Edward remarried in 1396, wedding the seven year old Isabella of Valois, daughter of Charles VI of France, to end a further struggle with France. SABINA'S
Henry IV (3 April 1367 – 20 March 1413) was the King of England and France and Lord of Ireland from 1399 to 1413. He was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire, hence the other name by which he was known, "Henry (of) Bolingbroke". His father, John of Gaunt, was the third and oldest surviving son of King Edward III of England, and enjoyed a position of considerable influence during much of the reign of Richard II. Henry's mother was Blanche, heiress to the considerable Lancaster estates. VERO'S
The Black Death, or The Black Plague, was one of the most deadly pandemics in human history. It began in South-western or Central Asia and spread to Europe by the late 1340s. The total number of deaths worldwide from the pandemic is estimated at 75 million people; there were an estimated 20 million deaths in Europe alone.
The Black Death is estimated to have killed between a third and two-thirds of Europe's population. ALBERT'S
The Decameron: is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its bawdy tales of love, appearing in all its possibilities from the erotic to the tragic. Other topics such as wit and witticism, practical jokes, the moral degeneracy of the clergy and worldly initiation also form part of the mosaic. Many notable writers such as Shakespeare and Chaucer are said to have borrowed from The Decameron (See Literary sources and influence of the Decameron below). Laura Sánchez Bolivar
Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 – December 21, 1375) He was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and author of a number of notable works including On Famous Women anf the Decameron. Boccaccio's characters are notable for their era in that they are realistic, spirited and clever individuals.Yaiza Montes Cebrián
St Thomas Becket: St Thomas of Canterbury (c. 1118 – December 29, 1170) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Church. He engaged in a conflict with King Henry II over the rights and privileges of the Church and was assassinated by followers of the king in Canterbury Cathedral. Miguel Ángel Sánchez
Dante Alighieri
His masterpiece (The Divine Comedy), is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
He was born into the prominent Alighieri family of Florence, with loyalities to the Guelphs, a political alliance that supported the Papacy, involved in complex opposition to the Ghibellines, who were backed by the Holly Roman Emperor.
His mother was Bella Degli Abat and she died when Dante was five or six.
He married Gemma in 1921 and they had a lot of children. SONIA'S
Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion of 1066 and the mid-to-late 15th century.
What with the passage of time ah changed and nowadays one does not speak equally the English. GONZALO'S
Francesco Petrarca (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374) " PETRARCH" in English.He was born in Arezzo (Italy) Petrarch was best known for his Italian poetry:The Canzoniere and the Trionfi. He was an enthusiastic Latin scholar and did most of his writing in this languag.Petrarch was often popularly called the "father of humanism".Based on Petrarch's works, and to a lesser extent those of Dante and Boccaccio, Pietro Bembo in the 16th century. PILAR
Petrarch: Poet and scholar, born in Arezzo, NC Italy. He studied at Bologna and Avignon, where he became a clergyman. In 1327 at Avignon he first saw Laura (possibly Laure de Noves, married in 1325 to Hugo de Sade), who inspired him with a passion which has become proverbial for its constancy and purity. As the fame of his learnings grew, royal courts competed for his presence, and in 1341 he was crowned poet laureate at Rome. The earliest of the great Renaissance humanists, he wrote widely on the classics, but he is best known for the series of love poems addressed to Laura, the Canzoniere, written in vernacular Italian. The work mirrors the poet's internal struggle between reality and dream, spirituality and the pleasures of the flesh. He left Avignon in 1353 after Laura's death, and lived the rest of his life in N Italy. His writing proved to be a major influence on many authors, notably Chaucer. His chief inspiration lay, however, in his sonnet form, which was adopted, among others, by Surrey, Wyatt, and Shakespeare. Eliana Córdova
