Episode 130 Quiz
Welcome to the quiz for Episode 130: An Introduction to Early Medieval Literature. See what you remember about the literary history of the early Middle Ages by clicking “START” below!
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Bede and his contemporary Aldhelm lived and worked during:
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Two of the first major works written on the continent in Germanic languages were about:
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In the episode we considered how Europe’s barbarian bards had a surprising amount of vocational overlap with:
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Charlemagne’s circle of intellectuals wrote poetry in:
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During the period of Roman Britain, most inhabitants of the island spoke:
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The most catastrophic century of Viking invasions was:
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Some of the earliest Welsh literature is about:
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The first traces of European vernacular languages begin to show up in surviving manuscripts around:
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These institutions, though they took on very different forms, were the most important operations in the production of early medieval literature:
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Vernacular means:
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In addition to the Irish language, this season of the podcast will also explore early medieval literature written in a different Celtic language. What’s this second language?
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Contrary to traditional historiographical accounts, archaeology and DNA analysis have suggested that the arrival of Germanic peoples in Britain was:
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This region produced four enormous prose cycles between about 700 and 1700 – cycles that are still somewhat difficult to find in modern scholarly translations.
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Which of the following were NOT among the roles of a poet in European barbarian societies prior to Christianization?
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The manuscript that contains Beowulf was written down around:
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