Episode 107 Quiz

Welcome to the quiz for Episode 107: Venantius Fortunatus. See what you remember about the Merovingian court poet Venantius, and the tumultuous decades in which he lived, by clicking START, below!

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Which of the following catastropic events did NOT affect Italy during the 530s, when Venantius was growing up there?

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Venantius wrote a panegyric to this volatile and controversial Merovingian king:

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Venantius wrote a wedding poem, or ________, for Sigibert and Brunhild in 566.

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Between 535 and 554, the Ostrogoths anchored in Italy fought a war with:

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Venantius’ main patron was:

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Venantius wrote a hymn on which subject to his friends at the abbey in Poitiers?

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Venantius’ work is generally in this meter:

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Venantius wrote an elegy to Galswinth, the sister of the Visigothic-Merovingian princess named:

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Gregory of Tours gave Venantius Fortunatus

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Venantius’ spiritual mother, who founded the Abbey of the Holy Cross at Poitiers

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Venantius’ two most famous poems, which we considered at the end of this program, are both about:

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These years most likely encompassed the lifespan of Venantius Fortunatus:

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Which of the following qualities are Venantius’ panegyrics NOT likely to praise in his addressees?

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The poems that Venantius wrote for Chilperic and Fredegund, to some extent, call attention to:

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This Merovingian princess, after suffering from an awful marriage, came from the Thuringian dynasty.

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