Exercises on Medieval Literature

(MACKENZIE)

“Oh, ugly lady! you went to complain

because I never praise you my trobar

but now I want to sing a song

in which I will praise you all the way

and see how I want to praise you:

ugly lady, old and sandia!”

Check the correct information about the excerpt by João Garcia de Guilhade:

a) is satirical song

b) was the first document written in Portuguese (1189)

c) it is a friend's song

d) was written during Humanism (1418-1527)

e) is part of the Auto da Feira

2) Among the main literary works of the Middle Ages, we can highlight:

a) Oedipus Rex and Lysistrata.

b) Aeneid and The Lusiads.

c) Song of Roland and Song of the Nibelungs.

d) The Odyssey and The Human Comedy.

e) The Divine Comedy and Madame Bovary.

(MACKENZIE)

Check the correct statement regarding Troubadourism:

a) One of the themes most explored by this period style is the exaltation of sensual love between nobles and peasant women.

b) It developed especially in the 15th century and reflected the transition from theocentric culture to the anthropocentric culture.

c) Due to the great prestige it had throughout the Middle Ages, it was recovered by the poets of the Renaissance, a time when it reached unsurpassed aesthetic levels.

d) It valued formal resources that had not only the function of producing musical effect, but also the function of facilitating memorization, since the compositions were transmitted orally.

e) Both in terms of themes and expression, this period style absorbed the influence of Greco-Roman aesthetic standards.

4) The Divine Comedy is among the main literary works of the Middle Ages. Written by Dante Alighieri, this work is divided into three parts, each representing:

a) the Golden Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.

b) Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.

c) the world of the dead, the world of the living and the world of the gods.

d) the Greek world, the Roman world and the Judeo-Christian world.

e) the European world, the American world and the Asian world.

Letter A

This song is classified as satirical because of the mocking theme. The author uses the elements of ugliness highlighted in the woman in question (“Dona fea”) to compose the argument of his poem.

Letter C

The Song of Rolando is a group of poems (songs) with themes related to chivalry, in Old French, the most remote being French. These poems were compiled from popular narratives and ended up receiving a more organized version from the 1130s onwards.

Letter D

The troubadour, being sung – presented – by minstrels, had a structure that depended on the memorization and precise intonation of syllables, which contributed a lot to the development of European national languages ​​in Middle Ages.

Letter B

The structure of the Divine Comedy is divided into the three parts of what makes up Christian cosmology:Hell, where the souls condemned to eternal damnation are, Purgatory, where the souls that they need purification before ascending to heaven and finally to Paradise, where God, angels, saints and saved souls are.