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Medieval Literature - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Anglo- Saxons
      - Norman Conquest
        
        Beowulf
    - - all texts circulated either orally and aurally or in manuscripts
      - Pre- Print Literature
        
        Poetry
        
        Old English poetry is alliterative and accentual
        
        each line on a page consists of a pair of half lines that are linked by alliteration
  - - - (1100-1500)
        
        Chaucer (1300s-1400)
- - - - Celtic herdsman lived around 687 A.D
      - He was illiterate
      - Caedmon's hymn was composed orally in old English