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Old English (600-1150) - Coggle Diagram
Old English (600-1150)
Roman Empire
Northwest: Angles and Saxons
People Eastern Europe
Goths and Vandals
Language: Anglo-Saxons
Beowulf: the oldest poem in English language
Candle of heaven
Peace-weaver
Light of battle
Sword
The sun
Women
King Arthur
Defended the old roman civilisation against the barbarian
Romans
Brittania/Brittani
language archictecs engineers soldiers governors
6 th century
England had become Christian
Henry VIII
Dissolved the monasteries, during Reformation
Battle of Hastings (1066)
William the Conqueror became King of England
The coming of the Normans
Absorved the culture of the Roman Empire Domesday book
Anglo-Saxon culture declined
Old French Literature
Middle English Literature (1150-1485)
the hero becames the man of romances
women began to appear more in poetry, as objects of desire and perfection
writers were influenced by Europe, (France and Italy), but seeking to build an English tradition
Geoffrey Chaucer (appr. 1342-1400)
great poet
first poems:dreams poems
Canterbury tales (1387-1400)