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The major periods of English literary history, and their most important…

- - - - Christianization in 596 AD by Pope Gregory.
        
        By the end of the 7th century all the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England had accepted the discipline and order of Roman Christianity.
        
        Takes over Latin.
        
        William the conqueror invaded England- Normann invasion.
        
        4 surviving old English poems from Anglo-Saxon period
        
        The junius manuscript
        
        The Beowulf manuscript
        
        The Exeter book
        
        The Vercelli book
        
        Caedmon's Hymn
        
        Germanic Alliterative verse
        
        The dream of the Rood
- - - - Geoffrey Gaimer
        
        The history of the English
      - Wace (1100-1171)
        
        The geste des Normands
        
        celebrates the achievements of the dukes of Normandy
      - Chivalry and courtly love
        
        Andreas Capellanus
        
        The art of courtly love (1185)
        
        Marie de France (1160-90)
        
        The lais of Marie de France
        
        Wace
        
        Long poem: Brut (1155)
        
        Chrétien de Troyes
        
        Ywain and Gawain, French poet, worked in England
      - English Romances and the Gawain poet
        
        King Horn (1225)
        
        The lay of Havelok the Dane (1300)
        
        Sir Orfeo (early 14th century)
        
        Sir Gawain and the green Knight
        
        Arthurian stories consisting of 4 parts
        
        Pearl
        
        Purity
        
        Patience
        
        Sir Gawain and the green Knight